Impact of Medical Tourism and Obssession of UK People to have Perfect Body : Report
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Impact of Medical Tourism and Obssession of UK People to have Perfect Body : Report
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Table of ContentsConcept of Medical tourism..............................................................................................................1Relationship between medical tourism and obsession of people to have perfect body....................2References..................................................................................................................................................8
Title: To identify the impact of medical tourism and obsession of people to have perfect body:A study on people of UKIntroduction Medical tourism is where people travel from their home country to another country for forreceiving different kind of treatment such as surgical care, dental etc. at the same time in anothercountry they receive more care and best treatment as compare to their own country (Chen andWilson, 2013). There are many people who travel for medical care in another country due toaffordability or for high quality of care. Travelling in search of medical care is not new process.Since from many years people travels for medical care in context to surgery. There are manypeople who only travel for surgeries (Cosmetic) or similar to this. In rare case people withgenetic disorder like to travel to other countries where the high treatment can be provided topatient. There are many surgery procedure performed in medical tourism destination which costa fraction of price they do in another countries. There are some popular destinations for medicaltreatment such as Costa Rica, India, Mexico and United states. While some popular destinationfor cosmetic surgery are Cuba, Turkey, Brazil, Costa Rica etc. further there are more than 70%high and middle class women in UK who have some form of plastic surgery (Hanefeld, Smithand Lunt, 2014). There are some risk which is associated with medical tourism, which locallyprovided medical care does not possess. There are some countries such as Thailand and SouthAfrica, where have some infectious disease related to epidemiology. Due to exposure to thisdisease without building up natural immunity can impact individual especially with respect togastrointestinal disease. The present study is conducted for identifying the impact of medicaltourism and its increasing demand among the people. In this report, a discussion is done on whypeople have gone to the extreme for body obsession to look like a celebrity.Background of study In the modern era, medical tourism increases and become popular in the UK where people liketo travel another country for cosmetic surgery. This medical tourism is subject to a large numberof risk, for example, deep vein thrombosis from air travel or due to poor post operative care.Further, there is some factor which leads to increase in medical care that is the high cost ofhealth care, easiness in affordability of international travel and use of advanced technology
(Connell, 2013). The avoidance of waiting time is the leading factor in the UK for medicaltourism while in United state the main reason behind this is a cheaper price. The reason behindthis study is to identify the factor which leads to increase in medical tourism. Further differentrisk and cure associated with cosmetic surgery in medical tourism. There are different riskfactors such as if individual travel long distance after medical surgery lead to some risk ofcomplication. Further, there are some medical issues with are linked with ethical issues such asthe illegal purchase of tissues and organs for transplantation has been methodically documentedstudied in countries that are China, Philippine etc. the National health services England has someprivate hospital in the UK which are the medical tourism destination.Aim; To identify the impact of medical tourism and obsession of people to have perfect body: Astudy on people of UKTo understand the concept of medical tourism To determined the relation medical tourism and obsession of people to have perfect body To identify the impact of Cuts in NHS had an impact on UK patients and medical tourismTo make recommendation to reduce the risk involved in travelling to abroad for surgeryRationale of studyThe present study is conducted for identifying the reason why people like to prefer medicaltourism and its impact on health. It is necessary to understand factors which encourage people inthe UK to travel abroad for cosmetic surgery. There are many health care organization who aregrabbing the attention of a large number of people for cosmetic surgery. In the modern era,celebrity obsession encourages to gone outside the country to extreme look like a celebrity. Thisresearch help in gaining knowledge of the factor that leads to increasing demand for medicaltourism. Along with this role played by the celebrity in obsession body and the way it influencesother people to look like them (Han and Hyun, 2015). However, there is some positive andnegative impact of medical tourism on the health of the individual. This research proposal willhighlight the factor influencing the medical tourism and increase of demand of cosmetic surgeryamong people. Further, in this report understand the factor which had an impact on UK patientsand medical tourism and reason they feel to go abroad for medical treatment. There are different
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