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A Study on Factors Affecting the Choice of International Medical Facility for Growth of Indian Medical Tourism
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Y.KEERTHANA , DR.M KISHORE BABU
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India is an uphill industry as a destination for medical tourism. In this present global healthcare, service patients are seeking the best medical facility at a low cost. Certain patients who go for low - cost treatment will move to the country where facilities are at a high standard, technologically advanced at low cost. So, patients travelling from one home country to another country for seeking treatment are named as Medical tourism. In this global scenario, most Asian countries are becoming competitors for the growth of medical tourism namely India, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand. Indian medical tourism is rapidly growing with a CAGR of 22.87%. In this stage, the researcher felt the choice of international patients is very important and identified the variables like quality of service and Diagnostic facilities after doing extensive literature which influences the choice of a healthcare facility. A structured questionnaire is conducted by taking International patients as samples and SPSS is used for analyzing the data.
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Medical Tourism, Health tourists, Healthcare facilities, International Patients, Medical care
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP3.056
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