Administrative and ethical analyze of the health tourism: A study of the private hospital managers Cover Image

Sağlik turizmi’nin idari ve etik açidan incelenmesi: Özel hastane yöneticilerine yönelik bir çalişma
Administrative and ethical analyze of the health tourism: A study of the private hospital managers

Author(s): Canan Aksoy, Itır Erkan, Cüneyt Ulutin
Subject(s): Management and complex organizations, Health and medicine and law, Welfare services, Tourism
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Health tourism; Patient safety; Ethics;

Summary/Abstract: High cost, ageing of the World population, increase of the chronic diseases in last decade as well as long line waiting time for the health services in their own country led people to get care abroad and this increase of the inquiries causes increasing importance of the health tourism. In this study, five scale Liqerts’ based questioners were sent 63 managers of private hospitals in Istanbul, between September and December 2015 by electronic mail. SPSS 20.0 computer program was used to evaluate the data for percentages and frequencies. According to the study results, technique capacity, location, and international design was found to be important for foreign patients while choosing the hospital. It was detected that most of the hospital managers could provide necessary precautions for the safety of the patients and could give guarantee for the provisions. However, they should give more information about the legal issues. Otherwise they could confront legal, ethical, and judicial problems. It is important to take measures for possible problems by the hospital managers, other managing staff, health workers and contact agencies.

  • Issue Year: 9/2017
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 68-72
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Turkish