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The importance of natural health remedies and environmental health in medical and natural health resort tourism

Natural health remedies are parts of natural attractions that have a favorable effect on preservation and improvement of health and the quality of life, as well as prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of disease (talassotherapy, climathoterapy, balneotherapy). Environmental health is by definition is the branch of public health that is concerned with aspects of the natural and built environment that may affect human health. We anonymously ask 100 employees of the Teaching Institute of Public health of Primorsko - goranska county as medical tourists to fulfill a questionnaire and choose between the same medical procedures in natural health resort destination which offers natural health remedies and some other destination, with of course the same cost of travel and accommodation. Also we ask if they will stay a day or two longer in natural health resort destination if they choose that destination. In the questionnaire 56% choose natural health resort destination also 57.1 % of them choose to stay longer. We conclude that potential tourist in medical tourism will choose more often the same medical procedure with the same costs in natural health resort destination also that he/she will have tendency to stay for a longer time, which will benefit the natural resort destination. We need law regulations that when natural health resort is regarded as one, it must have above standards in environmental health with continuous following of health promotion indicators.

Natural health ; Environmental health ; medical tourism

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