Drivers of Medical Tourism at the Individual Level

Klaus Schmerler
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Klaus Schmerler: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Chapter Chapter 6 in Medical Tourism in Germany, 2018, pp 193-239 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In Chap. 6, the author explores specific networks and network activities that underlie the more aggregated measures of cultural proximity in Chaps. 4 and 5. This chapter draws from stakeholder interviews and from an exploratory patient survey including a discrete choice experiment. The latter allows an investigation of the multilevel supply dimension outlined in Chap. 3 and a quantification of the country-of-origin effect associated with Germany. Additionally, this chapter inquires the role of recreation in medical tourism, into patients’ real consideration sets and into the role of numerous destination and individual characteristics for destination choice to answer secondary research questions that arose in Chaps. 2 and 3.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03988-2_6

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