Medical travel facilitators: connecting patients and providers in a globalized world

Dalstrom, Matthew

doi:10.1080/13648470.2012.747592

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“…As many studies have reported the positive relationship between intrapersonal factors and tourism behaviors (Lyu et al, 2011;Shields et al, 2012), personal preferences, beliefs, or psychological states have assumed opportunity for promoting the participation in tourism activities. Tourism researchers have greater understanding of intrapersonal facilitators as an important part of tourism facilitators that is linked to emphasizing the tourist experience (Dalstrom, 2013).…”

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Development of a Scale for Tourism Facilitators

Kim¹,

Heo

2015

Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing

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The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a scale of tourism facilitators that may play a significant role in participating in tourism activities. A scale of tourism facilitators was developed directly from the results in this study. One of the most important findings is that the tourism facilitator scale shows relatively acceptable measurement properties and reasonable levels of fit. The investigation of internal consistency and the CFA of the scale confirm the sufficient reliability and validity of the proposed model. The results also provide evidence that the three dimensions of tourism facilitators were negatively related to the three dimensions of tourism constraints, except for the relationship between intrapersonal facilitators and interpersonal constraints. Future studies should examine other countries to validate a more stable tourism facilitator scale and its relationships with related variables. The further testing of the concept of tourism facilitators can determine the role of facilitators at different stages of the destination decision-making process. The findings also provided preliminary evidence supporting the feasibility and value of using the new instrument as well as its relevance to both fundamental and applied research in investigating tourist behavior.

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Development of a Scale for Tourism Facilitators

Kim¹,

Heo

2015

Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing

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“…In relation to medical travellers, MTFs may be seen to perform a full range or a select mix of roles that differ depending on the population that they are catering for, and as the logistical needs of customers vary (Dalstrom, : 33). These commonly include facilitating the logistics of travel and border‐crossing, arranging accommodation and transport and helping in the communication between patients and health‐care providers.…”

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Medical travel facilitators, private hospitals and international medical travel in assemblage

Chee

Whittaker

Hong

2017

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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International medical travel may be viewed as an ‘assemblage’ of various components such as infrastructure, hospitals, finance, transport, technologies, staff, facilitators and patients. In this paper, we focus on the articulations of medical travel facilitators (MTFs) and private hospitals in producing international medical travel in the context of the neoliberalising processes that had led to the rise of corporate hospital care in Malaysia in the 1990s. We draw from three hospital case studies for a comparative perspective. We highlight the shifting, unstable and contingent relations and interactions of the MTFs, as one component of the assemblage of international medical travel, with hospitals and medical travellers. We identify the practices of MTFs in providing patients with information and advice about hospitals and doctors as efforts to shape patients' choices in the selection of health‐care providers and in decision‐making. The assemblage approach allows us to see how the MTFs emerge and stabilise as a collective identity for individuals and companies performing particular functions through their multifarious articulations with other components in various sites of assemblage.

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“…In general, health facilities, including the health resort ones, need 958 members of the profession. The nursing staff is also in short supply but in smaller numbers-about 800 paramedics and nurses are needed in the healthcare sector of the republic 6 .…”

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“…McHale [4], T. Powers [5], M. Dahlström [6] P. Cook [7]) and Russian (S. Yu. Ambartsumyan, S. A. Lochan [8], B. G. Ilyasov, F. H. Mazitova, Sh.…”

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Development of human resources structure for health resort facilities of the republic of Crimea

Tsyokhla¹,

Simchenko

Polishchuk

2015

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Medical travel facilitators: connecting patients and providers in a globalized world

Cited by 34 publications

References 25 publications

Development of a Scale for Tourism Facilitators

Development of a Scale for Tourism Facilitators

Medical travel facilitators, private hospitals and international medical travel in assemblage

Development of human resources structure for health resort facilities of the republic of Crimea

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