Factors Associated with Korean Immigrants' Medical Tourism to the Homeland

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ID15330360
AuthorsH Jang (0000-0003-2265-4753, The Graduate Center of City University of New York (CUNY), Department of Sociology, New York, NY, USA., Email: [email protected], corresponding author), Sou Hyun Jang (The Graduate Center of City University of New York (CUNY), Department of Sociology, New York, NY, USA., Email: [email protected])
Year2017
Volume41
Issue4
Pages461-470
Publication date2017-06-10
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Health Behavior (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1087-3244 • E-ISSN: 1945-7359
PublisherPNG Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5993/ajhb.41.4.11
PMID28601106
OpenAlexW2624536752
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Except for social transnational ties, other types of transnational ties with the home country were marginally related to Korean immigrants' medical tourism. Surprisingly, their health insurance status itself, which is assumed to be important, was not statistically associated with medical tourism. Although this study has the limitation of analyzing a convenience sample, it contributes to the literature on immigrant transnationalism and immigrant healthcare behaviors by using a mixed-methods approach to focus on one ethnic group's medical transnationalism

Demographic economics · Economic growth · Ethnic group · Geography · Health care · Homeland · Immigration · Medical tourism · Political science · Sociology · Tourism · Transnationalism · Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Gerontology

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