Rokni Ladan, Park Sam-Hun
Asia Contents Institute, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea.
Iran J Public Health. 2018 Feb;47(2):225-230.
Medical tourism suffers from the lack of a consensus regarding the involved categories. This study aimed to address this gap from the academic disciplines and publications perspective.
Totally 1954 citations were identified through a formula of keyword search of SCOPUS. In order to classify the various subject areas, we followed the international standard classification of education (ISCED) developed by UNESCO. Moreover, the trends of publications were identified based on their popularity between 2000 and 2017.
The category with the most interests on publication about medical tourism was 'health and welfare', followed by 'social science'. Even though various disciplines were involved in the medical tourism, it seems that a downward trend has been experienced since 2015.
The identified key trends of medical tourism publications will benefit researchers exploring the categories of medical tourism or health travel. The results contribute to advance the state of knowledge from the academic perspective.
医疗旅游在涉及的类别方面缺乏共识。本研究旨在从学术学科和出版物的角度填补这一空白。
通过SCOPUS的关键词搜索公式共识别出1954条引文。为了对各个学科领域进行分类，我们遵循了联合国教科文组织制定的国际教育标准分类（ISCED）。此外，根据2000年至2017年间出版物的受欢迎程度确定了出版趋势。
关于医疗旅游出版物最受关注的类别是“健康与福利”，其次是“社会科学”。尽管医疗旅游涉及多个学科，但自2015年以来似乎呈下降趋势。
确定的医疗旅游出版物的关键趋势将有助于研究人员探索医疗旅游或健康旅游的类别。这些结果有助于从学术角度推进知识水平。
