2023-07-23 19:02:51
Mexico is already the second destination focused on health tourism worldwide and offers a wide variety of services, both medical tourism and wellness tourism.
As for wellness, there are important boutique spas, spas that offer the temazcal experience, destination spas, thalasso therapy, and Vichy shower, among other activities.
Mexico attracts more than a million foreign patients seeking health tourism
Regarding the medical tourism industry, Mexico has evolved to be an outstanding destination for its ophthalmology, dentistry and cosmetic surgery services in border cities, thus becoming a global health care center, offering a full range of specialties and procedures.
According to a study conducted by Patients Beyond BordersMexico attracts more than a million foreign patients a year seeking health tourism, many of whom are of Hispanic origin, primarily from the states of Arizona, California, and Texas.
These are the factors that have caused the growth
As part of health tourism, the spa industry is included, which registers a value of 1,321 million dollars and presents an average annual growth rate of 4%. But, what are the factors that have contributed to the growth of the sector? Among the fundamentals are:
Competitive costs: Mexico offers savings on medical services from 3% to 89% compared to the United States. Geographical location: Mexico has a privileged geographical position, being located near Canada and the United States, which are the main target countries for the export of health services. Human capital: in Mexico there is a capacity to serve both the internal and external markets. The percentage of medical specialists with respect to the total number of doctors in Mexico is 63.4%, a figure higher than the average indicator for OECD member countries (57.7%). Infrastructure: in 2011, for example, private health tourism institutions in Mexico had 13,500 offices (of which 62% are specialties) and 34,807 beds (18% obstetrics and gynecology, 15% surgery, and 14% internal medicine). There were also 4,882 operating rooms and 1,344 intensive care units, 883 clinical analysis laboratories, 225 pathological anatomy laboratories, 301 dialysis equipment and 276 computerized axial tomography equipment.
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