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Drivers of Medical Tourism at the Individual Level

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Medical Tourism in Germany

Part of the book series: Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy ((HEPP,volume 13))

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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.

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Schmerler, K. (2018). Drivers of Medical Tourism at the Individual Level. In: Medical Tourism in Germany. Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03988-2_6

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