TY  - JOUR
T1  - A NOVEL CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL TOURISM
AU  - Ghasemi, Moslem
AU  - Movahed, Ali
AU  - Kadkhodaei, Samaneh
PY  - 2019
DA  - September
Y2  - 2019
DO  - 10.31201/ijhmt.530031
JF  - International Journal of Health Management and Tourism
PB  - Dilaver TENGİLİMOĞLU
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2458-9608
SP  - 82
EP  - 95
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - Medicaltourism is emerged as one of the new capacities for tourism in current market.Medical tourism development leads to the strengthening of human resources,organizations, and the individual/social capacities. Manyresearchers overviewed the issue of capacity development of medical tourism by various models; however, thereis not the coexistence of capacity development and medical tourism componentsin their models. Hence, this research attempts to study the medical tourism andcapacity development conceptual models to provide a novel model for capacitydevelopment of medical tourism. The research method is basically contentanalysis and the research type is fundamental. The data is collected fromlibrary research. Examination of models and main variables is done within thewhole health system including tourist destination, organizations andinstitutions, and the tourists through consideration of different capacitylevels and the socio-cultural, economic and political factors which form thesustainable development of destination. The results emphasize that the capacitydevelopment of medical tourism should consider the whole health system in thedestination from institutional and tourist dimensions rising from theindividual level up to the social level. Finally, our novel model is derivedand introduced from deep consideration of all studied models.
KW  - Medical Tourism
KW  - Capacity
KW  - Medical Tourism Capacity Development
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.31201/ijhmt.530031
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/803351
ER  -