Medical tourism

Medical tourism is travel across national borders to obtain medical treatment, often because of differences in cost, availability, or waiting times.

Dental tourism: Cross-border travel to obtain dental treatment, often at lower cost than at home. Dental care is a common form of planned treatment abroad.
Medical travel facilitator: A company or agent that coordinates treatment, travel, and accommodation for patients seeking care abroad. Facilitators connect prospective patients with overseas providers and logistics.
Medical tourism complications: Adverse outcomes or infections associated with obtaining medical treatment abroad. Complications may emerge during travel or after patients return home.
Medical migration: Movement across borders by healthcare professionals or patients for medical reasons. The broader term includes movement not specifically organized around obtaining treatment abroad.
Health tourism: Travel undertaken to obtain health-related services, including medical treatment and wellness care. The wider category includes wellness travel that may not involve clinical treatment.
Medical tourism for cosmetic surgery: Travel abroad to obtain cosmetic surgical procedures. Cosmetic surgery is a prominent elective reason for seeking treatment overseas.
International patient department: A hospital unit that coordinates services for patients traveling from other countries. These departments organize appointments, interpretation, billing, and travel-related support.
Antimicrobial resistance: The ability of microorganisms to survive medicines that would normally kill or inhibit them. Healthcare exposure abroad can involve resistant organisms that spread across borders.
Domestic medical travel: Travel within a person's own country to obtain healthcare. It shares the search for care at a distance but does not cross a national border.
Medical tourism and health equity: The study of how cross-border treatment affects fairness in access to healthcare. Debates focus on whether international patients compete with local populations for resources.

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