{"id":9525,"date":"2016-05-13T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/okomeds.com\/?p=9525"},"modified":"2016-05-13T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:34:45","slug":"5-secrets-about-medical-tourism-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/okomeds.com\/es\/5-secrets-about-medical-tourism-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"5 secrets about medical tourism in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical tourism means <a href=\"http:\/\/okomeds.com\/scenarios-for-a-medical-translation-at-christmas\/\"><strong>traveling abroad<\/strong><\/a> with a clear aim: obtaining a medical treatment in such country. People trust medical tourism because of different reasons, the most common ones are the followings: <strong>a more competitive pricing, a wider medical offer, and a more developed and quality medicine<\/strong> in comparison with their home country. So, medical tourism in Europe is a key market that attracts thousands of worldwide patients and here are some unknown data concerning this kind of tourism.<\/p>\n\r\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=What you should know about medical tourism&url=&via=okomeds\" class=\"retweet-okodia\" >What you should know about medical tourism <div class=\"retwitear-ok\" style=\"text-align: right;   font-size: 10px; padding-right: 43px;\">Tweet!<\/div><\/a>\r\n        <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script>\n<p><strong>Huge pricing difference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just for getting a clear example, a dental implant costs over <a href=\"http:\/\/okomeds.com\/the-seventy-one-million-dollar-word\/\">$4000 in the USA<\/a>, but around $800 in Poland. So, it is understandable that these enormous difference attracts many US citizens to some European countries for medical tourism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key treatments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spa and wellness treatments are the most demanded ones, specially in Hungary due to its tradition and its numerous thermal springs. Regarding more serious procedures, <strong>orthopaedic surgery, prostate cancer treatments, and heart transplants<\/strong> are the base of medical tourism in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 5 destinations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hungary, Belgium, Poland, Spain and Czech Republic are the top 5 destinations for medical tourism in Europe. Those data also confirm that, presently, Central Europe is the biggest emerging market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attracted patients<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>European citizens travel all around the continent looking for the most suitable medical offer and, among them, UK nationals are the most attracted ones &#8211; UK is an expensive country in comparison with the Central or Western ones. Additionally, many US and Canadian citizens annually cross the pond for medical tourism purposes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Change in trend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Decades ago, Europe did not appear on the worldwide map of top medical tourism destinations, but it currently does. Europe has become a prime destination because of 3 key factors:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The EU investment in healthcare have raised the services and infrastructures of the Central and Western Europe countries, which means a higher quality but not a rising in pricing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In the last years, other top countries &#8211; as Mexico, Brazil and Costa Rica &#8211; have increased their prices due to high demand. So now, many American citizens travel to Europe looking for cheaper rates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Additionally, the proximity and less cultural shock (some added values), have made Europe a more attractive medical tourism destination instead of other top ones as India or China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical tourism means traveling abroad with a clear aim: obtaining a medical treatment in such country. People trust medical tourism because of different reasons, the most common ones are the followings: a more competitive pricing, a wider medical offer, and a more developed and quality&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-9525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practical-tips","tag-medical-tourism"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>5 secrets about medical tourism in Europe - Okomeds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Medical tourism is a worldwide growing market, specially in Central Europe, but there are some other data really interesting\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/okomeds.com\/5-secrets-about-medical-tourism-in-europe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"5 secrets about medical tourism in Europe - 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