Health Care

Medical Tourism

Travel to another country for the purpose of medical treatment or care.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Travel to another country for the purpose of medical treatment or care.

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Classification

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Synonyms

9 entry terms
  • Health Tourism
  • Surgical Tourism
  • Tourism, Health
  • Tourism, Medical
  • Tourism, Surgical
  • Medical Tourists
  • Medical Tourist
  • Tourist, Medical
  • Tourists, Medical

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, psychology, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2010

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. N05.300w.515w

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Medical Tourism. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D057193. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D057193
  2. Medical Tourism. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism
  3. Medical Tourism. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q757232