Relevance and environment for Medical and Health Tourism in Mexico and other regions

Abstract

The book, Medical Tourism in Northern Mexico: opportunities, challenges, dilemmas and public policies, is a work that questions the importance of medical and health tourism through the analysis of the variables that affect its contextualization and development. With the purpose of problematizing Medical Tourism in northern Mexico, the work relates the categories of health and wellness tourism, cluster, border displacement, medical services, administration and public health, aesthetics, private health and food security. Taken together, these categories evoke theoretical questions that are highlighted in the work's discourse; and that, through thirteen chapters, organized in three sections and through the discussion of case studies (Ciudad Juárez, Tijuana, Acapulco, San Luis Río Colorado Sonora, in Mexico; and, Shuar, in Ecuador), contextualize mechanisms for the development of Medical and Health Tourism, as well as the circumstances and components that exist around this socioeconomic activity.