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ANALYSIS OF BARRIERS IN MEDICAL TOURISM DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
ISSN: 2757 - 9093
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ANALYSIS OF BARRIERS IN MEDICAL TOURISM DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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Publisher: Fenerbahce University Journal Of Design, Architecture And ..
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Abstract
Medical tourism is emerging both as a business and as an academic research area that provides patients access to medical institutions for treatment/rehabilitation outside their country of residence. Since the transnational medical travels are interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the medical tourism, especially the mostly requested elective low-risk treatments like dentistry, laser eye surgery, esthetics and hair transplantation are almost come to a standstill. Therefore, this study aims to identify the barriers to the development and execution of medical tourism during the COVID-19 Pandemic and to analyze the causal relationships between these barriers. In order to that, text mining and Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) analysis were conducted. Text mining was applied to the medical tourism related tweets in English from January to June 2020 via RapidMiner software and the current barriers in medical tourism were identified....
