There may be different reasons why patients travel for treatment purposes. Medical issues such as dental, eye, aesthetics, cardiovascular and joint prostheses, infertility treatment and in vitro fertilization come to the fore in health tourism. In addition to these, the number of patients who make health tourism for simple examinations or for control and examination for a disease is high.
We can list the general reasons for patients to do health tourism as follows:
- Scarcity or absence of high-tech healthcare and professional human resources in home country
- Long standby time
- The fact that health services are expensive in their own countries, the same service can be obtained more affordable in other countries
- Desire to receive quality health care
- Doesn’t want his surgery to be known for any reason in his own country
- Having problems with health insurance,
- The chronic patients, the elderly and the disabled want to be treated in a different environment,
- The desire of people with drugs and different addictions to be in different or more suitable environments,
- Desire to take a vacation with treatment
- Desiring to benefit from the climatic and geographical characteristics of a country different from his country (such as seeing countries with forests, highlands, different history and culture)
- Desire to meet with thermal waters in countries with thermal facilities
Health tourism is very diverse and may have many reasons. The main reason is that patients want to solve their health problems in a different country with better facilities or to receive the same service more economically.
