TY - JOUR ID - 133942 TI - Medical Tourism Industry: A Systematic Review on Its Principles, Sequels, and Ethical Issues JO - Eurasian Journal of Science and Technology JA - EJST LA - en SN - AU - Amini, Anita AU - Shahpoori Arani, Hamidreza AU - Milani Fard, Maryam AD - Master of Industrial Engineering-Management and Productivity, Health Systems Researcher, Firoozgar Hospital Clinical Development and Research Center AD - MSc, Department of Neuropsychology, Imam Hussein Hospital, Malayer, Hamedan, Iran AD - Researcher at the Anesthesia and Pain, Molecular and cell Biology Research center, Faculty of Medicine Department of Anatomy, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 2 IS - 2 SP - 143 EP - 155 KW - Medical tourisms KW - policies and programs KW - Health tourism KW - reproductive tourism DO - 10.22034/EJST.2022.2.3 N2 - Aim: This study was conducted in order to systematically collect existing articles and describe and analyze the different fields of medical tourism including the definitions of medical tourisms, motivations of medical tourists, marketing in medical tourism, and ethical issues in medical tourism and its impact on the health system.Methods: The current systematic review followed the principles of the “Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews” guideline. all manuscripts related to medical tourism were deeply searched by the two reviewers using the related keywords including “health tourism”, “medical tourism terms”, “stem-cell tourism”, “dental tourism”, “reproductive tourism” and “transplant tourism” in the international manuscript databases such as Web of knowledge, PubMed, Emerald, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar. Results: The findings show the same definition of medical tourism in various articles and motivations of medical tourists. However, there is a wide range of principles related to medical tourism in terms of benefits and its consequences in studies, so that most studies in developing countries reflect the benefits of medical tourism and most studies in advanced countries reflect the consequences of medical tourism. Conclusion: The subject of medical tourism is different according to the policies and programs of each country, and conducting accurate and comprehensive research in the country in order to clarify the reality of the issue is necessary. UR - https://ejst.samipubco.com/article_133942.html L1 - https://ejst.samipubco.com/article_133942_978a4a4eeefa58ed39d4213b5cc5616e.pdf ER -