Cemile TERZIER
Abstract
This study provides a comprehensive bibliometric
analysis of health tourism policies for the last
twenty years. The objective of the study is to reveal
prominent topics, recent research trends,
influential authors and popular documents.
PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for
Systematic
Reviews
and
Meta-Analyses)
guidelines were followed to carry out the study. A
Boolean search of the Web of Science (WoS) Core
Collection was utilized to identify published
documents upon health tourism policy. A total of
144 published documents published in WOS
between 2006 and 2024. Were analyzed via
VOSVIEWER. The study uncovers a
multidisciplinary field with five main clusters such
as health tourism, research and development,
medical destination brand, medical facility and
quality. Furthermore, the study points out that there
is a change in research trends upon health tourism
policy. While current studies in the scope address
health management and medical tourist as recent
topics, relatively recent studies seem to display
focus on medical destination brand, equity,
satisfaction, research and development, medical
facility and policy. Moreover, health tourism is
realized to hold powerful interconnections with
some of those author keywords such as medical
destination brand and policy. Presenting a
meticulous review of the literature, this study
contributes insights to literature a lot. Furthermore,
it functions as a guide for researchers, scientists
and policy makers to set up or improve theories,
policies and studies.
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