Medical Tourism in Developing Countries

Index ● 235public health and 27–28research and developmentand 109–10structural transformation and 25trickle down theory of, health careand 174economic indicators 14–15, 16t,17t, 18economic reform 15–16economiesgovernment jump-starting of 67international. See globalization;international economymonocrop 35of scale 76structural transformation of 15World Bank categories of 14ecotourism 45, 134elasticity of demand 36–37electric power 117English, fluency in 104–5Enloe, Cynthia 22, 35, 125entry requirements, as obstacle tomedical tourism 158–60Escorts Heart Institute 58, 59European Unionhealth care model in 151health insurance in 152euthanasia 42, 195n5exchange rates, favorable 98externalities, negative 35FFalkow, Stanley 173Fasting Tourism 42financial services, development of 25Fleckscher Ohlin theory 29foreign investment 84–85, 191n17dependency and 34–35examples of 85–86GATS limits on 85Indian cap on 131low production costs and 97in services 30–31Friedman, Thomas 4, 18, 23,108, 185GGandhi, Rajiv 130Garcia, Pedro 180GATS 90health defined by 29liberalization and 129limits on foreign investment 85as obstacle to medical tourism 140provisions of 27GATT, health-related trade agreementsof 90gender, health-care inequality and 172General Agreement on Tariffs andTrade. See GATTGeneral Agreement on Trade inServices. See GATSGlobal Code of Ethics for Tourism 91Global Competitiveness Report 67globalization 4economic growth and 28impacts of 23–24opposition to 34role of 5–6spread of disease and 24, 169,172–73See also international economygovernment, role in health carefinancing 179growth competitiveness index 126, 127tHHaq, Ul 174Harrod-Domar model of economicgrowth 31Harvard Medical InternationalDubai Healthcare City link to83–84, 147hospital branches of 83–84healthliberalization and 128politics of 68