{"id":6311,"date":"2017-06-16T13:36:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T13:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/?p=6311\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:21:12","slug":"medical-and-wellness-tourism-currency-devaluations-sweeten-the-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/ghi-analysis\/medical-and-wellness-tourism-currency-devaluations-sweeten-the-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical and Wellness Tourism: Currency Devaluations Sweeten the Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The development of medical tourism in Latin America in recent years has been very profitable for destination country economies, including <a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/news\/medical-tourism-market-mexico-reports-huge-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Mexico<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/news\/argentina-telemedicine-fast-growing-segment-of-the-healthcare-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Argentina<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/news\/why-medical-tourism-is-surging-in-colombia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Colombia<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/news\/cuba-medicine-followed-by-tourism-brings-the-highest-revenue-to-cuba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Cuba<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. Surgical and dental procedures are offered at a sharp discount compared to U.S. price points.<\/p>\n<p>Over 1.4 million Americans went abroad for medical cases in 2016, a number that has grown alongside the rising cost of care following the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>Latin America is receiving the lion\u2019s share with costfriendly and increasingly excellent medical care combined with developed tourist infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The establishment of rigorous standards via U.S. based Joint Commission International allows a growing number of accredited <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/latin-american-hospital-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latin American hospitals<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to leverage a golden seal of approval.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/article-6-medical-and-wellness-tourism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download the complete report<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development of medical tourism in Latin America in recent years has been very profitable for destination country economies. Surgical and dental procedures are offered at a sharp discount compared to U.S. price points. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":20169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[166,151,171,172,156,173,157,174,175,84,176,161,461,178,179,180,181,184,298],"class_list":{"0":"post-6311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ghi-analysis","8":"tag-argentina-hospital-data","9":"tag-brazil-hospital-data","10":"tag-global-health-intelligence","11":"tag-health-research-latin-america","12":"tag-healthcare-market-intelligence","13":"tag-healthcare-market-intelligence-latin-america","14":"tag-healthcare-market-research-latin-america","15":"tag-hospital-database-latin-america","16":"tag-hospital-equipment-latin-america-hospital-equipment-latin-america","17":"tag-latin-america-healthcare","18":"tag-latin-america-outlook-2017","19":"tag-market-intelligence-latin-america","20":"tag-medical-tourism-latin-america","21":"tag-number-of-hospital-beds-per-hospital-caribbean","22":"tag-number-of-hospital-beds-per-hospital-latin-america","23":"tag-number-of-hospitals-latin-america","24":"tag-operating-rooms-per-hospital-latin-america","25":"tag-research-latin-america","26":"tag-research-latin-america-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29937,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions\/29937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}