Physician humanist F.P. Gaaz as a researcher and organizer of spa-and-resort services in the Kavkazskie Mineral'nye Vody region
Blokhina, N.N.; Gaaz, F.P.
Voprosy Kurortologii Fizioterapii i Lechebnoi Fizicheskoi Kultury 154(1): 38-42
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8787 PMID: 22693749 Document Number: 661442
The legal framework and the regulatory documents on which to base the development and activity of the medical spa in this country are practically absent which accounts for the necessity to analyse the global tendencies in this sphere. The authors review the literature data concerning the current trends in the development of health resort business and rehabilitative medicine and consider a new type of therapeutic and health-improving facilities known as "medical spa". The main aspects of the work of these centres with special reference to their therapeutic/preventive and organizational activities are discussed with due regard for the global experience and international practices in these fields.