发展国际医疗旅游的意义、经验及建议

Significance,experiences and suggestions for developing international medical tourism

本文归纳整理了近年来有关国际医疗旅游的中文文献,总结了发展国际医疗旅游对于拉动经济增长、扩大就业、提升国际竞争力等的重要意义,梳理了全球国际医疗旅游发展的主要驱动力和泰国、印度、马来西亚、日本、韩国等国家(地区)发展国际医疗旅游的主要经验,根据我国医疗旅游发展现状及优劣势,借鉴国际经验,提出了促进我国国际医疗旅游业发展的主要建议,包括完善医疗旅游管理体制和管理制度、尽快研究制定国际医疗旅游发展战略规划、打造以中医药为特色的医疗旅游品牌、建设国际医疗旅游先行区和示范区、推进医疗机构和服务的国际化认证等建议。

On the basis of drawing on recently published literature on international medical tourism, this paper comprehensively summarizes the effects thereof on driving economic growth, expanding employment and improving in-ternational competitive power, analyzes the main driving forces for the international medical tourism development and the experiences from Thailand, India, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, etc. According to China’s advantages and dis-advantages and learning from the international experience, this paper proposes suggestions to develop China’s interna-tional medical tourism, including an improvement to the management system, formulating international medical tourism development strategies, building brand characteristics with traditional Chinese medicine, constructing ‘Ex-perimental and Leading Area’ , and promoting international certification for the medical institutions and services.