SAY 408 - Health Tourism

To comprehend health tourism, health tourism institutions, medical and thermal treatment in terms of health tourism, medical and thermal therapy tourists, medical and thermal therapy tourists, medical and thermal therapy tourists and problems and solutions of tourists and businesses within the scope of health tourism.

To be able to analyze Turkey's advantages and disadvantages within the scope of health tourism.

To be able to create a vision in the field of Health Tourism as a Health Manager Candidate by having the knowledge to make comparisons about the countries that are at the forefront in terms of health tourism from the world countries.

This course; Health Tourism, medical tourism, advanced age, disabled tourism and thermal tourism concepts, Health Tourism Market and the concept of reverse flow in medical tourism, tourism health, differences between tourist health and medical tourism concepts. Areas and countries where medical tourists are treated the most, reasons for development. The place of Asian countries in medical tourism, cross-border patient mobility in European countries and the concept of medical tourism. Medical tourism activities in the American continent.

Health Tourism Industry, Management of the Treatment Process, Customer Expectations in Health Tourism, Areas where medical tourists are most treated, Patient Health, Quality, Safety and Risk in Health Tourism, Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Tourism, Health Tourism from Economic, Social and Institutional Perspective, Impacts on the System: Source Country, Impacts on the System: Destination Country,

Health Tourism in Turkey: A General Framework and Medical Tourism,

Health Tourism in Turkey: Thermal Tourism, Disability and Advanced Age Tourism.