台灣醫療旅遊的發展

Abstract

臺灣醫療旅遊主要著重於中國大陸。本論文在於分析台灣政府對中國大陸的醫療旅遊產業之醫療旅遊的政策，其優、缺點的調查。

Medical tourism in Taiwan is manly focus on Mainland China. This study aims to analyze the government polices for managing medical tourism through the Mainland China medical tourists. Its strengths and weaknesses investigation in regards to Taiwan’s governance. The conclusions come out that medical tourism creates a surplus of doctors which benefits healthcare in Taiwan; it benefits the private run hospitals or medical centers; it strives the preexisting tourism infrastructures’ improvement and help to deal with those ill-equipped hospitals to make better condition; moreover, it shows a friendly country to share their high quality medical service to other counties; and it also improves the relations across the Taiwan Strait. \r\nThe result of this paper gives an overall suggestions to Taiwan’s government that the government should emphasize real gains and benefits (both economic and political) from the development of the domestic medical tourism industry; the government should relax restrictions about surgery staying days and restrict the hospital’s investment from Taiwan to Mainland China; the government should abolish the provision medical tourism fee and do more involvement to promote the especially lesser-known hospitals; the government should integration of efforts to market medical tourism; the government should do its best to manage the development of medical tourism and the domestic healthcare system; the government should encourage the public hospitals’ participation in medical tourism industry and negotiate with Mainland China for medical tourism issues. Thus, the integration and investment are the most important priority for Taiwan’s medical tourism development.