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| Title |
Medical tourism and national health care systems: an institutionalist research agenda
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Globalization and Health, July 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12992-018-0387-0 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Daniel Béland, Amy Zarzeczny |
| Abstract |
Although a growing body of literature has emerged to study medical tourism and address the policy challenges it creates for national health care systems, the comparative scholarship on the topic remains too limited in scope. In this article, we draw on the existing literature to discuss a comparative research agenda on medical tourism that stresses the multifaceted relationship between medical tourism and the institutional characteristics of national health care systems. On the one hand, we claim that such characteristics shape the demand for medical tourism in each country. On the other hand, the institutional characteristics of each national health care system can shape the very nature of the impact of medical tourism on that particular country. Using the examples of Canada and the United States, this article formulates a systematic institutionalist research agenda to explore these two related sides of the medical tourism-health care system nexus with a view to informing future policy work in this field. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 10 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 40% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 4 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 60% |
| Scientists | 2 | 20% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 10% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 128 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 128 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 25 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 8% |
| Researcher | 9 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 20 | 16% |
| Unknown | 40 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 18 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 9% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 10 | 8% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 20 | 16% |
| Unknown | 47 | 37% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 January 2023.
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#1,406,785
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#202
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#28,954
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#8
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