Gholipour Hassan F, Esfandiar Kourosh
Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia.
Eur J Health Econ. 2025 Mar;26(2):233-241. doi: 10.1007/s10198-024-01700-3. Epub 2024 Jun 6.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of medical tourism revenues on the growth of healthcare sector across 49 emerging and developed economies from 2008 to 2022. Using panel GMM and PMG/ARDL estimation methods, the results show that higher levels of medical tourism revenues promote growth in the healthcare sector. This finding remains robust across different sample periods, alternative measure of healthcare sector performance, and model specifications.
本研究的目的是调查2008年至2022年期间医疗旅游收入对49个新兴和发达经济体医疗保健部门增长的影响。使用面板广义矩估计(GMM)和面板平均组估计(PMG)/自回归分布滞后(ARDL)估计方法,结果表明,较高水平的医疗旅游收入促进了医疗保健部门的增长。这一发现在不同的样本期、医疗保健部门绩效的替代衡量指标以及模型设定下都保持稳健。