SWM518 Health Economics and Finance

Medical tourism and its implications in demand and supply of healthcare in a country. Medical tourism is growing phenomenon in some countries. It brings opportunities as well as challenges in terms of demand and supply of health care. In particular, it burdens existing health systems of a country in terms of extra workload for the health workforces. At the same time, it creates opportunities to earn more revenues for the country. Discuss these issues using a country of example. (This essay will consist of 1. an introduction with thesis statement and main points as an overview of arguments. 2. body paragraphs that develop arguments and each paragraph may have number of subtopics, topic sentence, Evidence, Analysis of limitations and liking of two different points together. 3. conclusion; restate problem, summarise key points, arguments to conclude)