Medical, Health and Wellness Tourism Research—A Review of the Literature (1970–2020) and Research Agenda

Zhong, Lina; Deng, Baolin; Morrison, Alastair M.; Coca‐Stefaniak, J. Andrés

doi:10.3390/ijerph182010875

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“…It is run in a Java environment and was first created by Chen MeiChao, a professor working in the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University in the United States [ 41 ]. To date, the CiteSpace software has been used in various fields such as environmental science, pedagogy, forestry, communication, public health, and tourism [ 43 , 44 ]. Moreover, a significant body of scholars worldwide have utilized it to handle mass corpuses of literature in order to track research hotspots, research frontiers, and emerging research trends.…”

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First Systematic Review on Health Communication Using the CiteSpace Software in China: Exploring Its Research Hotspots and Frontiers

Dang

Luo

Ouyang

et al. 2021

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Since the 1970s, health communication (HC) has attracted widespread attention from practitioners and researchers in various fields in China, leading to the production of a vast array of literature. In order to reveal the current state, popular themes, and research frontiers of HC research, this study employed the CiteSpace software to conduct a comprehensive review based on 1505 HC publications from 1992 to 2021 retrieved from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database. The results demonstrated that (1) the number of HC publications has experienced an annual increase over the past 20 years, albeit with certain inverted S-shaped fluctuations and (2) the most prolific authors mainly included Wang L.Y., Zhang Z.L., and Wang Y.L., while well-known universities played a leading role in HC research in China. A significant finding was that a stable core group of authors or institutional has been not formed in the HC field. Furthermore, (3) research hotspots included health education, new media, health literacy, health information, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine (AHVM), the doctor–patient relationship, and public health emergencies. Additionally, the development of the field could be divided into four stages, indicating a significant shift in HC research from focusing on medicine and public health issues towards communication issues. Finally, (4) new research frontiers have mainly included the WeChat official account and Health China.

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First Systematic Review on Health Communication Using the CiteSpace Software in China: Exploring Its Research Hotspots and Frontiers

Dang

Luo

Ouyang

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…CitsSpace5.8.R3 is a widely used visualization application in many fields, such as environmental science, pedagogy, forestry, communication, public health, and tourism ( 25 , 26 ). It is accessible for free and can process literature data.…”

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Research trends in college students' sleep from 2012 to 2021: A bibliometric analysis

Zhou

et al. 2022

Front. Psychiatry

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BackgroundA great proportion of college students experience various sleep problems, which damage their health and study performance. College students' sleep problems, which are caused by several factors, have been easily ignored before. In the past decade, more research has been published to expand our understanding of undergraduates' sleep. The purpose of the study is to explore the research hotspots and frontiers regarding college students' sleep using CiteSpace5.8.R3 and offer guidance for future study.MethodsWe retrieved relevant literature from the Web of Science Core Collection Database and imputed the downloaded files into CiteSpace5.8.R3 for visualization analysis. We generated network maps of the collaborations between authors, countries, institutions, the cited journals, and co-occurrence keywords. The analysis of keywords clusters, timeline views, and keywords citation bursts help us identify the hotspots and research trends.ResultsA total of 1,841 articles related to college students' sleep, published from 2012 to 2021, were selected. The number of publications gradually increased. Karl Peltzer was the most prolific authors with 15 publications. The United States and Harvard University separately contributed 680 and 40 articles and had the greatest impact in this field. SLEEP ranked first in the frequency of cited journals. The article published by Lund HG was the most influential publication. Based on the analysis of keywords, we summarized research hotspots as follows: current status, affecting factors, and adverse outcomes of college students' sleep. The frontiers were the further understanding of the relationships between sleep and mental and physical health, and various interventions for sleep disorders.ConclusionOur study illustrates the research hotspots and trends and calls for more research to expand the findings. In the future, the cooperation between institutions and authors needs to be strengthened. The complex relationships between sleep and mental and physical health and problematic substance use disorders are necessary to be explored. Longitudinal studies or randomized controlled trials should be constructed to verify the current findings or assumptions.

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“…In the development and promotion of the economy of health tourism, things such as childhood vaccination, oral and dental hygiene, legal frameworks, evaluation systems, input systems and macro policies are still of interest, so more research is needed in these cases. Most importantly, meeting the expectations and requirements of tourists is the most important point for promoting health tourism (22).…”

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Identification and Ranking of Value Creation Indicators in Health Tourism in Iran (by a mixed exploratory approach)

Mohammadesmaeil

Kianmehr

2022

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Background and purpose: health tourism not only leads to the strengthening of the scientific, political, social and regional sector, it has many economic benefits. Therefore, in order to increase the economic prosperity of the country and increase the health tourism industry in Iran and to achieve a suitable position among the countries of the region, the identification of value-creating factors in the tourism industry was determined with a mixed exploratory approach. Research method: This research was conducted in the year 2022 using a mixed exploratory method. In the first stage, key indicators were identified and categorized through interviews with experts in the field of health tourism. Then, based on hierarchical analysis, priority and weights were calculated. Then, in the second stage, a questionnaire was designed, after validation by 384 of foreign national parents who had a sick child and referred to the children’s medical health tourism department between 2015 and 2022, it was completed and the results were determined based on descriptive and analytical statistics. Findings: Key indicators were obtained from the results of interviews with experts, which were classified into 4 general categories and 16 components. The results showed that the financial dimension and the growth and learning dimension were the most effective indicators in health tourism with the highest average of 3.7524 and 3.7447, respectively, and internal processes with an average of 3.5784 were the least effective indicators from the point of view of the studied community. Also, the results of Harmesir’s t-test showed that 4 financial indicators, customer, internal processes and growth and learning have a significant relationship with creating value in health tourism. Conclusion: One of the important factors in medical tourism is the factors related to medical services. The financial aspect and the cost of treatment, the level of services and credibility of medical centers and treatment staff, and the existence of laws and government support in the destination country are important and decisive issues in attracting tourists. Therefore, it is recommended to create added value in health tourism by removing challenges such as the limitations of payment methods, the existence of middlemen between health tourists and medical centers.

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Medical, Health and Wellness Tourism Research—A Review of the Literature (1970–2020) and Research Agenda

Cited by 51 publications

References 98 publications

First Systematic Review on Health Communication Using the CiteSpace Software in China: Exploring Its Research Hotspots and Frontiers

First Systematic Review on Health Communication Using the CiteSpace Software in China: Exploring Its Research Hotspots and Frontiers

Research trends in college students' sleep from 2012 to 2021: A bibliometric analysis

Identification and Ranking of Value Creation Indicators in Health Tourism in Iran (by a mixed exploratory approach)

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