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  2. Impacts of tourism - Wikipedia

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    Health effects: Tourism also has positive and negative health outcomes for local people. [1] The short-term negative impacts of tourism on residents' health are related to the density of tourist arrivals, the risk of disease transmission, road accidents, higher crime levels, as well as traffic congestion, crowding, and other stressful factors ...

  3. Tooth and Consequences: Fla. Woman Faces Medical Tourism ...

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    Medical tourism is nothing new: For years, media outlets, including this one, have been reporting on the benefits of going to other countries for expensive medical procedures. But sometimes, cheap ...

  4. Medical tourism - Wikipedia

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    The field of the medical tourism (referring to volunteers who travel overseas to deliver medical care) has recently attracted negative criticism when compared to the alternative notion of sustainable capacities, i.e., work done in the context of long-term, locally-run, and foreign-supported infrastructures.

  5. Traveling to die: The latest form of medical tourism - AOL

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    In the 18 months after Francine Milano was diagnosed with a recurrence of the ovarian cancer she thought she’d beaten 20 years ago, she traveled twice from her home in Pennsylvania to Vermont.

  6. Tourism - Wikipedia

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    Tourism also has positive and negative health outcomes for local people. [124] The short-term negative impacts of tourism on residents' health are related to the density of tourist arrivals, the risk of disease transmission, road accidents, higher crime levels, as well as traffic congestion, crowding, and other stressful factors. [125]

  7. An American in Turkey: Can Medical Tourism Get You ... - AOL

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    How much does medical tourism in Turkey cost? Costs vary based on treatments, but it is often 50-70% less expensive than in the U.S., with the same or better quality of care. Is medical tourism safe?

  8. Stem cell tourism - Wikipedia

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    Stem cell tourism, a form of medical tourism, is the internet based-industry in which stem cell procedures are advertised to the public as a proven cure. [1] In the majority of cases, it leads to patients and families traveling abroad to obtain procedures that are not proven, nor part of a clinical trial approved by an authority like the Food and Drug Administration in the United States. [2]

  9. Medical Tourism: What You Should Know - AOL

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    A: Generally, medical tourism refers to going outside your own home state to receive medical care. For example, for years people in the U.S. have been traveling from their home state to the Mayo ...