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							                                                         SERVICIO NACIONAL DE APRENDIZAJE SENA
                                                       CENTER FOR HUMAN TALENT TRAINING IN HEALTH
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TOPIC: Health tourism 07 – Comprehension Stage.
TIME: 4 hours
COMPETENCE:
Comprender textos en inglés en forma escrita y auditiva.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
       Encontrar vocabulario y expresiones de inglés técnico en anuncios, folletos, páginas web., etc.
       Comunicarse en tareas sencillas y habituales que requieren un intercambio simple y directo de información cotidiana y técnica.
       Realizar intercambios sociales y prácticos muy breves, con un vocabulario suficiente para hacer una exposición o mantener una conversación
        sencilla sobre temas técnicos.

WORDBANK: Affordable, airfare, abroad, acute, prolapse, resurfacing, widespread, sipping, countless.
                                                       FIRST STAGE – PRESENTATION

Lead in: Is medical tourism for me?
Put yourself in the place of your customer and think: Why is medical tourism for him/her?

Now let’s read the following text and work in the proposed activities:

Medical tourism isn't necessarily for everyone. Make sure you know the benefits and dangers of receiving treatment
abroad.

It's important to understand that medical tourism is not for everyone. In the US, for example, there are certain procedures
that few countries can match when it comes to quality and price. Also, for patients who are looking for early diagnoses, it
doesn't always make sense to travel abroad in order to have a doctor look them over. However, taking a medical
vacation is an excellent option for many.

A Medical Vacation Might Be an Excellent Option for You If:
   1. You are planning on taking a vacation anyway and want to receive a health checkup, operation, or treatment.
   2. You have a difficult time affording health care in your home country because:
           You lack insurance.
           Your insurance company won't cover the cost of your procedure.
           Even with insurance, the procedure is too high
   3. You're on a long waiting list for a certain procedure, physician, or medical facility in your home country.
   4. Your home country does not offer the treatment(s) or procedure(s) that you require.
   5. You want to receive affordable care without sacrificing quality.
   6. You need or desire a medical procedure that requires several days/weeks of recuperation. This is especially
        popular for those looking to have cosmetic or plastic surgery performed.
   7. You simply love to travel and want to see more of the world.

Medical Tourism Can Remove Long Wait Times: Many countries with socialized medicine have unusually long wait times
coupled with copious amount of regulatory paperwork and bureaucratic red tape. Not surprisingly, countries such as
England have actually begun encouraging their citizens to receive medical attention abroad due to the shorter waiting
times and lower costs.

Medical Tourism Can Save You Money: In the United States, wait times are usually quite reasonable, but Americans have
other incentives for going abroad to receive medical treatment. In 2006, the Census Bureau indicated that 46.6 million
Americans had no medical insurance. An additional 120 million were without dental insurance. Thus, it's easy to see why
more than 500,000 Americans took medical and dental vacations that year. If you're someone who doesn't want to break
the bank or wait a long time for medical treatment, then a medical vacation might be right for you.

Taken and adapted from: http://www.healism.com/medical_tourism/overview/are_medical_vacations_right_for_me?/

We are going to work in the vocabulary construction, for this we are going to design a chart of four columns by the rows
we might need in the following way:
 Word                           Prediction                     Meaning in Spanish             2 Synonyms in English.


Then proceed to work in the following exercises:


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    1.     Take the information from the text and list 10 reasons for getting medical vacations.
    2.     Order that information from the most important reason to the least important reason.
    3.     Explain why the first reason is the most important and the tenth the least important reason.

                                             SECOND STAGE – PRACTICE

Read the following text about the following medical tourism place.

Beautiful bodies on the sand, this is the very first things that come to mind when people think about Brazil. Taking up the
majority of South America, the energetic and vibrating music of the samba, and plenty of other tourist attractions that
make people prefer Brazil as a tourism destination. Brazil is a good place for tourists who are after one rather specific
goal: cheap and efficient medical services. Their medical tourism health care ranges from medical surgeries, psychiatry,
dental surgeries, and cosmetic surgeries are normal in Brazil. In fact, Brazil is especially known for its local cosmetic
surgery industry.

What makes Brazil a tourist destination is the promising offer its local medical environment advertises. This includes the
country’s capability to provide low-cost, world-class medical tourism treatment thanks to the devaluation of the Real,
which is Brazil’s currency, against the value of our US dollar. It could also be said that Brazil is home to some of the best
hospitals in the world. The privately owned health institutions, to be precise, are the operating center of well-reputed
surgeons.

Some of these doctors, however, have actually been trained in US Institutions, and have received certification from the
American Board of Plastic Surgery. Some are even members of American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgeons. In addition to this Brazil provides some of the most spectacular natural landscapes and sceneries for
sightseeing and relaxing, and cities with all kind of choices for entertainment as well as a good communication
infrastructure to reach most of the attractions in the country and all class of accommodations ranging from low cost
hostels as well as 5 stars hotels and resorts, offering all kind of boarding and hosting for all kind of interested customers
from all over the world.
Taken and adapted from: http://www.cosmeticsurgerytoday.com/travel/brazil-hot-for-medical-tourism/

    -      Complete the following chart using the information from the text:
              Aspects of description                                          Characteristic
        Cost of procedures
        Services offered
        Currency
        Surgeon’s certification
        Availability of accommodations
        Cost of accommodation


    -      Check the following charts:

              Criterion:           Price and service           Criterion:
              Class:               Accommodation               Price and            Accommodation
              Examples of the      Hostel                      service.
              category:            Hotel
                                   Resort
                                                                   Hostels               Hotels               Resorts


           Based on the previous example order the following concepts in terms of Class:
           Medical services, surgeon’s certification and landscapes.

                                    THIRD STAGE – PRODUCTION
Think about the following:
     What would you consider for taking a health tourist plan?
     What aspects are necessary in order to select a health tourist destination?
     Is health tourism for you? Why is it for you or why is not for you?



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