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Medical Tourism Networks in an Emerging Market
University of Gävle, Faculty of Education and Business Studies, Department of Business and Economic Studies, Business administration. Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2016-4841
Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4885-6014
University of Gävle, Faculty of Education and Business Studies, Department of Business and Economic Studies, Business administration.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0477-855x
2021 (English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
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2021.
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Business Administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35435OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-35435DiVA, id: diva2:1537374
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As manuscript in dissertation

Available from: 2021-02-17 Created: 2021-03-15 Last updated: 2024-02-14Bibliographically approved
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1. Healthcare Service Marketing in Medical Tourism: An Emerging Market Study
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Healthcare Service Marketing in Medical Tourism: An Emerging Market Study
2021 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Medical tourism (MT) enables patients to satisfy their healthcare needs by traveling outside their country of residence to obtain medical treatment. The increasing number of scientific publications, different countries’ engagement in providing care for foreigners, and patients heading abroad to receive healthcare indicate the growth and popularity of MT. This industry’s development exposes the healthcare sector to a competitive environment. As a result, marketing has become a significant part of healthcare providers’ operations and survival. Research into how these providers promote their services is limited. This limitation is further apparent for healthcare providers located in less popular destinations, such as emerging market (EM) countries. This dissertation therefore focuses on MT service providers in an EM, the Philippines.

This study aims to examine how service providers in an EM country market healthcare services internationally. This thesis consists of four articles. Through qualitative case-based research, this study concentrates on hospitals, clinics, and medical tourism facilitators that play a central role in service delivery within the MT industry. The results from this thesis show that to efficiently market healthcare, service providers have to build trust, establish reliable networks, and offer customized and supplementary services.

This dissertation is positioned to contribute to relevance and diversity in service marketing research and the budding healthcare service marketing while sustaining MT literature through studying service providers in an EM context. Although this study was based on one EM, it offers an in-depth understanding of how the marketing of healthcare services is being implemented. This knowledge is not only important for the practicing medical tourism destination countries, but also for patients, managers, policymakers, and researchers in the patients’ home country. Future studies could focus on the perspective of consumers. Accordingly, this study is an initial step toward a deeper understanding of the marketing of commercialized healthcare.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2021. p. 230
Keywords
healthcare service marketing, medical tourism, emerging market, service marketing, trust, network, customization, word of mouth, supplementary services, Philippines
National Category
Business Administration
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urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35433 (URN)978-91-89109-52-0 (ISBN)978-91-89109-53-7 (ISBN)
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2021-04-08, MA648/via link, Alfred Nobels Allé 7, Huddinge, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2021-03-15 Created: 2021-03-15 Last updated: 2021-03-15Bibliographically approved

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