a School of Communication Studies , Ohio University.
Health Commun. 2018 Apr;33(4):443-452. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1278494. Epub 2017 Feb 2.
"Birth tourism" has rarely been addressed by scholars. The ways that pregnant women are encouraged to leave their homelands and give birth abroad have not been investigated. Birth tourism agencies may seek to persuade women that particular destinations-such as the US-are ideal places for giving birth. An examination of how birth tourism agencies frame birth tourism may offer initial insights into this phenomenon. This study examines 34 agencies' home pages and their arguments advocating birth tourism for Chinese expectant mothers. Using a thematic approach, we find four reasons offered to pregnant Chinese women that make birth tourism appealing. This perspective helps us to understand birth tourism both as a health-related behavior and a cosmopolitan issue. We use neoliberalism as an analytic framework to examine how birth tourism may enhance inequality in health resource distribution both domestically and internationally.
“生育旅游”很少被学者们关注。鼓励孕妇离开自己的祖国到国外分娩的方式尚未得到调查。生育旅游机构可能试图说服妇女，认为某些目的地——如美国——是理想的生育地。对生育旅游机构如何构建生育旅游的考察，可以为这一现象提供初步的见解。本研究考察了 34 家机构的主页及其为中国孕妇倡导生育旅游的论点。通过主题方法，我们发现了向中国孕妇提供的四个使生育旅游具有吸引力的理由。这一视角有助于我们理解生育旅游既是一种与健康相关的行为，也是一种世界性的问题。我们使用新自由主义作为分析框架，来考察生育旅游如何在国内和国际上加剧健康资源分配的不平等。
