Welche Rolle spielt die Gesundheitspolitik? Eine Analyse des Medizintourismus in Australien und Deutschland

Abstract

Health tourism is a rather broad concept that spans from wellness tourism to medical tourism and destinations for that matter differ greatly in their specific health tourism characteristics from a supply but also a demand perspective. Focusing on medical tourism, it is proposed in this paper that these differences can, at least in parts, be explained by marked differences in a country's health card system. Two very different health tourism destinations, Germany and Australia, are presented to support this argument.