What are the exact figures of medical tourism destinations?

This is a usual thing, to find out, every Medical Tourism Destination will give figures with some year on year increase. But those figures never disclosed that the foreign patients treated were especially for Medical Tourism purpose. Or those figures include patients who are working as foreign labor, work force, and these foreign workers especially visit couple of times a year to a medical facility.
If any one is aware of figure, which has absolutely traveled for medical tourism to a foreign destination.

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Permalink Reply by Shabir Ahmed on July 21, 2009 at 2:11pm
Dear Ms Helen Cosburn,
Nice comments about Jordan. Certainly Jordan is the oriental pearl and a great destination for Medical Tourism in particular and tourism in general.
Best regards
Shabir
Permalink Reply by Mubbashir on October 14, 2009 at 6:37am
Dear Ms Dina Kattan,
Greetings from Kuala Lumpur.
Our friend Mr Jade Harvey has posted this questions at this forum, hope if you can reply it.
Best regards, Mubbashir
Question is as below,
Greetings from The Netherlands,
Does anyone know what percentage of GDP Jordan spends on healthcare?
Have a lovely day,
Jade Harvey
Permalink Reply by Dina F. Kattan on October 15, 2009 at 4:55am
Dear Mubbashir & Jad,
A lovely day from Jordan, Sorry for being late in replying Mr. Jade for the last two weeks I did not opened the webpage of (medicaltourismcity). However, Jordan has the highest spend on healthcare in the region – some 10.5% of GDP – putting it on a par with evolved economies such as the US and Western Europe. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia, for example, spends only 3.4% of GDP on healthcare. Germany, on the other hand, spends 10.7% of GDP on healthcare (all figures WHO 2005).
Hope this replies both of you
thank you
dina
Permalink Reply by Ashok Panda on December 18, 2009 at 11:01am
Thats really interesting.To have small but well equipped health villages which not only increases the efficiency but also creates a Buyer's market and buyer's predict the term with the way they avail healthcare services, It sounds like Jordan has really served up to the need and has a good framework development.
Permalink Reply by Jade Harvey on October 10, 2009 at 5:18pm
Greetings from The Netherlands,
Does anyone know what percentage of GDP Jordan spends on healthcare?
Have a lovely day,
Jade Harvey
Permalink Reply by Dina F. Kattan on October 15, 2009 at 4:50am
Dear Jade,
Sorry for my delay in replying you, actualy last two weeks I am not following up with the Medical Tourism city site as I was suffering from the irretible colon. However, Jordan has the highest spend on healthcare in the region – some 10.5% of GDP – putting it on a par with evolved economies such as the US and Western Europe. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia, for example, spends only 3.4% of GDP on healthcare. Germany, on the other hand, spends 10.7% of GDP on healthcare (all figures are by WHO 2005).
Permalink Reply by Roshan Shah on October 12, 2009 at 10:11pm
Here is an interesting article that also talks about predictions and real numbers
India's medical tourism needs a tonic
Permalink Reply by Cherie Bright on October 13, 2009 at 8:37am


According to "Amazing Thailand" the official travel authority for Thailand, Two Million Medical Visitors are expected this year.
Permalink Reply by John Smilgin on October 19, 2009 at 3:32pm
Finding the precise number of legitimate medical tourists visiting any 1 destination would be challenging precisely because no one seems to be distinguishing between people who travel explicitly for health care treatments and those foreign nationals working as "expats" who need medical care. We have the same problem trying to identify how many American "retirees" are living abroad and so we might study the growth trend. Deloitte published a great report on medical tourism last year that has some pretty good "intel" on growth rates of medical tourism. Here is the link to their PDF:

http://tinyurl.com/dejuzu. T

They may have a more recent study published online, so it might be worth Googling this to see. Hope this helps!
Permalink Reply by David Morgan on October 20, 2009 at 11:51am
Dear Mubbashir
I'm coming at this from the angle of measuring the total health spending abroad - but of course the number of medical tourists is of interest in itself and can help estimations. As you mention medical tourists are a subset of residents using foreign health services - this can be border or seasonal workers, students as well as regular tourists whose primary puropse is not travelling for health. Then you have to decide what is included under "medical tourism"!
What we hope to do is come up with guidelines and best practices for determining the spend among different groups by assessing the available data sources out there to get better measures and comparable measures of the size of the market. I would be happy to hear from tourist organisations and researchers in the field on what time of tourist, passenger surveys are out there as well as what type of surveys of providers (hospitals, doctors, etc) exist in countries.
Permalink Reply by Vance Jochim on October 31, 2009 at 5:22pm
At the recent Los Angeles MTA conference on Medical Tourism, Deloitte announced their new figures and report on the medical tourism industry.

Here is what their report LAST year said:
In 2007, an estimated 750,000 Americans traveled abroad for medical
care. As depicted in Figures 2 and 3, this number is estimated to
increase to six million by 2010.1,2 Accordingly, the base-case estimate
for the annual growth rate in outbound medical tourism is estimated
at 100 percent from 2007 to 2010.

But, in the new report, they are saying annual growth rate is about 35% for the next three years.
You can find the NEW report HERE (or search for "medical tourism" on their US website Deloitte.com ):
http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/Industries/Health-Plans-Healt...

After the announcement in LA, questioners asked why Deloitte's figures were so high, compared to McKinsey studies, etc. The Deloitte rep talked at length about their methodology and they include types of services excluded by McKinsey. He also pointed out they go through a legal review process so they are confident in the numbers.
vj
Permalink Reply by Mubbashir on December 11, 2009 at 12:29pm
Hi,
This really sounds promising and if we see the current statical reports in medical tourism from around the world, most of them show the upward trend. Though Deloitte is very promising and some times casts the doubts to believe it, but over all it is certainly positive trend.

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