Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Medical Tourism

  • Proponents of the Philippine medical tourism
    program contend that Filipino health practitioners
    are best able to perform care work in their homeland,
    not elsewhere. AGENDA: to entice international patients
  • Health and Wellness Cluster includes:
    1. hospitals (medical check-up, transplant, surgery, etc.)
    2. specialty clinics (dental, cosmetic surgery)
    3. wellness and spa centers (massage, aromatherapy)
    4. retirement village, nursing homes

DS 141 topics

1. conventional medicine and Cuban social medicine 2. primary health care, secondary health care and tertiary health care 3. germ theory and...