The relationship between the growth in the health sector and inbound health tourism: the case of Turkey

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2016

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Springer International Publishing Ag

Erişim Hakkı

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Özet

One of the consequences of globalisation for Turkey, as well as in other emerging countries, has been an increasing trend in health tourism. Households have been considered choice the best option in terms of price and alternative possibilities while they have been solved their health problems. Previous studies have argued that the main drivers of the growth of inbound health tourism to developing countries are lower costs, shorter waiting periods, and better quality of care. This study aimed to test the effect of health and social service sector growth on the flow of inbound health tourism between 2004:Q1 and 2015:Q4 by employing Granger causality and Johansen cointegration approaches. Our findings suggested that there is a long-run Granger causality from domestic health and social work expenditures to health tourism income whereas this is non-existence in the opposite direction.

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Health tourism, Health and social work expenditures, Granger causality, Johansen cointegration

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Springerplus

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N/A

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5

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