Badrabadi Nafiseh Karimi, Tourani Sogand, Karimi Asef
Department of Health Services Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, International Campus, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Health Services Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2022 Apr 28;11:146. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_277_20. eCollection 2022.
Nowadays, medical tourism reports impressive growth in terms of number of persons, income, and number of countries involved in cross-border flows. It refers to people traveling abroad (from home to a target country) to obtain medical treatment. The present study aimed to identify the themes and codes of the medical tourism business in Iran.
We searched international databases (such as PubMed, Scopus, Embase, and Web of Science) and Iranian bibliography thesaurus and repositories (namely, Scientific Information Database and Magiran) using keywords such as medical tourism, international medical travel, and medical tourism business in the English and Persian literature, published between January 2000 and December 2019, identified with no restriction on the type of the studies. The data were analyzed based on the content analysis method.
Out of 1054 articles, 14 were finally selected. In the end, eight themes of the medical tourism business including competitive pricing, safety and security, information and communication technology, labor market and human resources, structure management, leading the way in medical tourism, infrastructure, and exchange with the international world were identified which on the whole contain 45 codes. Most of the articles were quantitative. Four of the themes (competitive price, labor market and human resources, structure management, and infrastructure) were most frequent and of the highest importance.
The themes and codes identified in this study helps companies and individuals who want to work in the field of medical tourism. According to this study, all 8 themes and 45 codes are of high value, but still, some themes are of higher value than others and special attention should be paid to them.
如今，医疗旅游在跨境流动涉及的人数、收入和国家数量方面呈现出令人瞩目的增长。它指的是人们出国（从本国前往目标国家）接受治疗。本研究旨在确定伊朗医疗旅游业务的主题和编码。
我们使用诸如医疗旅游、国际医疗旅行和医疗旅游业务等关键词，在国际数据库（如PubMed、Scopus、Embase和科学网）以及伊朗书目词库和知识库（即科学信息数据库和Magiran）中搜索2000年1月至2019年12月期间以英文和波斯文发表的文献，对研究类型不设限制。基于内容分析法对数据进行分析。
在1054篇文章中，最终筛选出14篇。最终，确定了医疗旅游业务的八个主题，包括竞争性定价、安全保障、信息通信技术、劳动力市场与人力资源、结构管理、引领医疗旅游潮流、基础设施以及与国际交流，这些主题总共包含45个编码。大多数文章是定量研究。其中四个主题（竞争性价格、劳动力市场与人力资源、结构管理和基础设施）最为常见且具有最高重要性。
本研究确定的主题和编码有助于希望从事医疗旅游领域工作的公司和个人。根据本研究，所有8个主题和45个编码都具有很高的价值，但仍有一些主题比其他主题价值更高，应予以特别关注。
