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Chapter 1 Tourism and Health, a Long-standing and Renewed Relationship |
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1.1 From Hippocrates to thermalism |
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1.1.2 Elsewhere in the world |
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1.1.3 To the Middle Ages, then in the Renaissance |
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1.1.4 Modern history of spa towns |
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1.2 From sea bathing to coastal tourism and thalassotherapy |
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14 | (7) |
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16 | (3) |
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1.3 Fresh air, nature, health and tourism |
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1.4 From heliotropism to a reflection on social inequalities in tourism |
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24 | (3) |
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Chapter 2 Travel Health, Risks and Diseases |
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2.1 Diseases and risk areas |
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2.1.1 Infectious and parasitic diseases |
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2.1.2 Prevention is better than cure |
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54 | (2) |
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2.2 Circulation of tourists, circulation of diseases |
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56 | (15) |
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2.2.1 International travel and the spread of epidemics |
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2.2.2 Non-infectious risks and diseases: travel-related variations |
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2.2.3 Travel mortality and its causes |
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2.2.4 Health upon return home (example of post-travel depression) |
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2.3 Bodies, tourism activities and health |
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2.3.1 The relationship with the sun and how new body norms emerge |
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2.3.2 Worship of bodily beauty |
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2.4 Accidents, insurance and repatriation and access to travel healthcare |
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2.4.1 Comparing healthcare systems around the world |
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2.4.2 Health insurance, assistance and repatriation |
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Chapter 3 Medical Tourism, Health Mobilities and Global Processes |
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3.1 Medical tourism, definition(s) and trends |
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104 | (4) |
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3.2 The patient tourist experience |
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3.3 Tourism and disability |
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119 | (8) |
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119 | (6) |
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3.3.2 Respite tourism for caregivers |
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125 | (2) |
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3.4 Retirement tourism: from tourism to winterization |
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3.5 The backpacker phenomenon and health |
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3.5.1 Risk assessment and risk taking |
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3.5.2 Seeking care and searching for alternative practices |
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3.6 Circulations, vernacular knowledge and health versus tourism and globalization |
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3.6.1 Substance circulations and pharmaceutical tourism |
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3.6.2 From traditional health knowledge tourism to shamanic tourism |
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Chapter 4 Impact of Tourism Development on the Health of Destinations |
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4.1 Impacts on health systems |
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4.1.1 Does tourism unbalance local health systems? |
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4.1.2 Does tourism initiate public health policies? |
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4.1.3 Labels and certification standards |
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4.1.4 Special case: the impact of medical tourism |
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4.2 Health and environmental impacts |
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4.2.1 Pollution or degradation of ecosystems |
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4.2.2 Example: the impact of cruise tourism |
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4.3 Social health impacts |
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4.3.1 Occupational health |
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4.3.2 Changing lifestyles: thoughts on food |
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4.3.3 Tourist carrying capacity and health issues |
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Chapter 5 Health, Ignored in Tourism Development? A Neglected Asset? |
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5.1 Health and wellness as a tourist segment |
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183 | (6) |
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5.1.1 Health benefits of travel and tourism |
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185 | (1) |
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5.1.2 Health, well-being and tourist attractiveness |
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5.2 Synthesis of potentials |
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5.2.2 An evolving clientele |
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5.2.3 Four facets of the same object |
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5.3 What role for each category of actor? |
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5.3.1 Territorial actors: assessing the health impacts of tourism development |
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194 | (1) |
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5.3.2 Health actors: taking into account the fact of tourism |
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5.3.3 Tourism stakeholders: linking tourism and health |
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5.4 Transforming tourism: Goal 3 of the Berlin Declaration |
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| Conclusion |
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| References |
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| Index |
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