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                                                                                    <journal-title>Journal of  Health Systems and Policies</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2667-4920</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2718-0050</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>İstanbul Medipol Üniversitesi</publisher-name>
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                                                            <subject>Health Care Administration</subject>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Sağlık Kurumları Yönetimi</subject>
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                                                                                                                                                            <article-title>Health Tourism and Anatolian Blessings Medicine: A Strategic Business Model Proposal for Turkey’s Branding</article-title>
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                                                    <contrib-group content-type="authors">
                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Yıldırım</surname>
                                    <given-names>Hasan Hüseyin</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>SAĞLIK BİLİMLERİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20200410">
                    <day>04</day>
                    <month>10</month>
                    <year>2020</year>
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                                        <volume>2</volume>
                                        <issue>1</issue>
                                        <fpage>1</fpage>
                                        <lpage>32</lpage>
                        
                        <history>
                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20200109">
                        <day>01</day>
                        <month>09</month>
                        <year>2020</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20200124">
                        <day>01</day>
                        <month>24</month>
                        <year>2020</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2018, Journal of  Health Systems and Policies</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Journal of  Health Systems and Policies</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                                        <abstract><p>The phenomenon of health tourism has begun to play a major role in societies&#039; social life, economic development, and integration with the world. Health tourism involves a wide range of products and destinations and is becoming an area that many public and private stakeholders participate in at the international, national, regional, and local levels. Countries and other interested actors compete with each other to attract potential health tourists. To have a considerable share and to become a sustainableactor in this competitive environment, countries must create a competitive identity and continuously develop and sustain this identity. This identity can be accomplished via branding.     The paper has two major objectives. The first objective is to propose a &quot;Health Tourism Branding Model&quot; that can be used by countries. The second objective is to exemplify the Turkish case designed based on the proposed model.     In conclusion, we strongly believe that countries should shape the organization and strategy of their health tourism in the framework of the proposed business model with a strategic approach and viewpoint.</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Health Tourism</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Anatolian Blessings Medicine</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Health Tourism Branding Model</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Strategic Business Model</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Turkey</kwd>
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