Market and Needs Assessment: Complete a medical tourism market and needs assessment of your local county/parish which includes: • Population trends and characteristics – age, gender, ethnicity, etc. • Socioeconomic characteristics – educational level, income level, employment
• Health provider’s inventory – list of vendors & health systems, not-for-profit, etc. • Area development – transportation, education, business & industry, residential • Indicators of health – natality, mortality, morbidity, risk factors, health services utilization Include historical, current and projected information as appropriate and available. You may want to include charts, tables and/or maps. Paper should be 4-6 pages (not including cover & reference page).