Does medial tourism promote growth in healthcare sector?

Authors

Hassan F. Gholipour
Kourosh Esfandiar, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

European Journal of Health Economics

Publisher

Springer

School

Business; Tourism and Travel

RAS ID

70326

Comments

Gholipour, H. F., & Esfandiar, K. (2024). Does medial tourism promote growth in healthcare sector?. The European Journal of Health Economics, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-024-01700-3

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of medical tourism revenues on the growth of healthcare sector across 49 emerging and developed economies from 2008 to 2022. Using panel GMM and PMG/ARDL estimation methods, the results show that higher levels of medical tourism revenues promote growth in the healthcare sector. This finding remains robust across different sample periods, alternative measure of healthcare sector performance, and model specifications.

DOI

10.1007/s10198-024-01700-3

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