• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.25-38
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• 2015

China has a growing number of medical tourists to visit South Korea every year, with economic growth, and thus Korea's medical tourism is growing countries in the new growth engine industries and attracting attention. In this study, this time looking at the risks and benefits of medical tourism potential factors consumers feel the Chinese people for South Korea medical tourism, economic, based on existing research, functional, temporal, social, and psychological setting factors, risks and benefits conducted a study of the relationship between the purchase of your help. Risk factors identified through this study, we investigate expanding the overseas medical tourism market to visit Korea by managing the benefits and know the strategic implications that can achieve customer satisfaction by the service convenient for Chinese tourists.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.1478-1488
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• 2014

본 연구는 외국인 의료관광객을 대상으로 의료관광 만족에 영향을 줄 수 있는 특성요인을 찾는데 있다. 의료관광 민족에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악하기 위해 대상자의 특성에서 유의한 차이를 나타낸 변수들을 가능한 영향요인으로 선정하여 분석한 결과에서는 전체여행 예산, 의료서비스를 위한 방문 횟수, 직업(자영업), 학력(대학 졸업 이상), 월평균 가구 소득, 의료비 예산, 방문기간이 유의한 영향 요인으로 나타났다. 이러한 영향요인들이 대상자의 의료관광 만족을 43.5% 설명하였으며, 가장 높은 영향요인은 전체여행 예산으로 나타났다. 의료관광 만족이 구전의사와 재방문의도에 미치는 영향력을 예측하기 위한 분석결과에서는 의료관광 만족요인이 구전의사와 재방문의도에도 유의한 예측 영향요인으로 나타났다. 즉 의료관광 만족이 1단위 높을수록 구전의사가 있을 확률은 없을 확률보다 1.57배 높았고, 재방문의도가 있을 확률은 없을 확률보다 1.85배 높았다.

• 의료법학
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.275-307
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• 2010

In the presidential new-year address in January 2, 2009, the President declared that 17 kinds of new driving force of growth that could create high-added value be selected to step up job creation and an increase in national wealth. The Ministry of Strategy & Finance announced plans for the 17 kinds of new driving force of growth after the presidential address. Specifically, that ministry announced an ambitious plan to select health care service named 'Global Health Care' as one of the five service industries that could create high-added value in a move to provide jobs to approximately 7,000 people and produce pervasive economic effects coming up to a trillion and 10 billion won. To attain the goal, several action plans were mapped out to globalize domestic medical institutions, to rearrange the relevant law and system for the purposes of raising awareness of domestic medical institutions among foreign patients and improving their accessibility and post-satisfaction level, and to lure lots of foreign patients through financial assistance. At the same time, the government announced plans to lure severe patients such as those in want of surgery or organ transplant, cancer patients or patients with heart diseases to create high-added value on a long-term basis. Thus, the government announced that it planned to formulate such strategies and to enter an agreement with foreign governments to attract plenty of foreign patients. In fact, however, there are little full-scale evaluation of medical tourism though it's been a year since it was introduced, and there are few actual efforts to implement what the government announced, either. According to the results of the evaluation of medical tourism, domestic hospitals are said to undergo little significant changes after the introduction of medical tourism, which shows that they take a dim view of medical tourism instead of having expectations for that. The medical tourism industries in major Asian countries have been dynamized, and there are several factors of their success. First of all, they are successful in creating new market opportunities by incorporating related industries such as medicine, tourism and IT and in developing medical tourism products and differentiated marketing by taking advantage of their competitive edge. They have offered full-fledged assistance to this sector, and another reason is the improved international credibility of their medical service. If our country fails to pinpoint our problems in consideration of the cases of the Asian countries or to provide appropriate financial aid, our country is bound to lag behind them. Given this reality, how to assess medical tourism and what challenges this sector is confronted with are discussed.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.21-31
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• 2016

Purpose - With globalization, medical tourism has developed as a new industry, which attracts practitioners and academics to have more interest in researches on customers' behavior. This research was to investigate empirically WOM effects on the intention of Chinese customers when they select an international medical tourism destination. Interestingly, WOM effects on their choice and decision process may vary by the extent of their severity of illness. Research design, data, and methodology - The data was collected from 1,747 potential Chinese residents in main districts of China. Moderated regression analysis was used to estimate WOM effects on Chinese customers' choice intention. Results - Results imply that WOM determinants of tie strength, credibility, and vividness do interact with medical tourism information and affect customers' intention for health care abroad. Results also reveal that the severity of illness plays a critical moderating role in customers' decision process. Conclusions - WOM and the severity of illness are important moderators for Chinese customers to make a decision for medical tourism. It provides some implications for service organizations for developing and implementing marketing strategies in international health care markets.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.7-16
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• 2018

Purpose - The effect of regional culture has been acknowledged for decades. However, very little research takes it as an important issue in the medical tourism service decision process. This study focuses on regional culture to identify customers' preference for medical tourism in the international environment. It is proposed that regional culture may work as an critical moderator in the international medical tourism destination choice process. Especially, the destination attributes may vary according to regional culture. Research design, data, and methodology - By the questionnaire survey, the sample is collected from 2,041 potential Chinese residents in different regions of China. Regression analysis is constructed to test the effect of regional culture on Chinese customers' destination preference. Results - Results imply that regional culture plays a critical moderating role in the destination choice process. Results also indicate that destination attributes including medicine and travel characteristics are the important predictors of destination preference. Conclusions - This study provides the fundamental base to use regional culture as a descriptive variable for segmentation when establishing an effective marketing strategy. Furthermore, this research suggests that different strategies relied on destination attributes should be made to attract more Chinese customers for the development of medical tourism industry.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.29-39
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• 2021

세계적 고령화 현상과 새로운 라이프 스타일로 인하여 새로운 관광 형태인 헬스투어리즘은 전세계적으로 주목 받고 있다. 이 연구의 목적은 헬스투어리즘의 경쟁 요인을 분석하고 이에 맞는 제주지역 헬스투어리즘 모델을 제안하는 것이다. 문헌 연구를 통해 헬스투어리즘의 개념과 유형에 대한 이론적 고찰과 경쟁 요인 도출, 그리고 의료간섭 위계공간에 대한 고찰을 진행하였다. 이어서 제주 지역 관광, 의료, 정책에 관한 전문가를 대상으로 설문 조사를 실시하였으며 이를 바탕으로 하여 제주지역 헬스투어리즘의 경쟁 요인을 분석 한 결과, 제주지역 헬스투어리즘은 건강 서비스 공간보다 자연 치유 공간에서 중요성이 더 높은 것으로 확인되었다. 이러한 분석을 바탕으로 제주지역 헬스투어리즘은 자연치유공간과 비의료치유공간을 기반으로 자연자원, 치유자원, 활동자원 등 3가지 관광자원을 활용하는 모델을 제시하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.463-475
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• 2014

21세기의 신성장 동력으로 여겨지고 있으며 최근에 급격한 양적 및 질적 성장을 하고 있는 의료관광이나 우리나라가 제공하는 의료관광 상품이 아직 의료 관광객의 필요에 충분히 부응하지 못하는 측면이 있다. 이의 해법을 의료관광속성에 관한 연구에서 찾고자 한다. 여기에 2000년 이후 꾸준히 성장세를 유지하고 있는 한류에 대한 관심의 정도가 의료관광에 영향을 미치는지도 확인한다. 이를 위해 5가지 가설이 설정되었고 가설검증을 위해 설문을 통한 실증분석을 실시하였다. 실증분석을 위해 SPSS 20.0 통계프로그램을 활용하였고, 설정된 가설은 검증결과 모두 채택되었다. 가설검증결과 한류에 대한 관여도는 의료관광속성, 만족도 및 행동의도에 영향을 미쳤으며 의료관광속성도 만족도 및 행동의도에 영향을 미침을 확인하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.330-342
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• 2015

의료관광은 많은 지역에서, 특히 아시아 국가들에서 수익성이 매우 높은 관광의 영역으로 간주되어지고 있다. 이와 같은 의료관광은 유희의 목적의 관광활동과 헬스케어 서비스가 강조되어 결합된 관광으로서 전 세계적으로 빠르게 성장추세를 보이고 있다. 본 연구에서는 의료관광 서비스 종사자들 가운데 간호사들을 대상으로 그들이 인지하고 있는 서비스 지향성과 이직의도의 영향관계에서의 직무몰입과 직무만족간의 매개효과를 실증분석을 실시하였다. 분석결과, 첫째, 간호사들이 인지하고 있는 서비스 지향성은 이직의도에 부(-)의 영향관계를 미치고 있었으며, 둘째, 서비스 지향성과 이직의도의 관계에서 간호사들의 직무몰입은 매개효과를 보이고 있었고, 셋째, 간호사들이 지각하고 있는 서비스 지향성과 이직의도의 관계에서 그들의 직무만족 또한 매개효과를 나타내고 있었다. 이와 같은 실증분석 결과들은 향후 의료관광 관리자들에게 의료관광 활성화를 위한 전략수립에 유용한 정보를 제공할 수 있을 것이다.

• 사상체질의학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.115-124
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• 2011

1. Objectives : This study aimed to provide practical insights on the development of traditional Korean medical tourism and maximize the satisfaction of foreign patients. The main objectives of this study were also to evaluate Sasang Constitutional Medicine(S.C.M.) diagnosis cost from foreigners' perspectives. 2. Methods : For this study, the data were collected from tourists to Korea between January 3, 2010 to February 20, 2010. The sample used in this study was mainly composed of Japanese, Chines and US/Canada, because they are the major national visitor origin group to Korea. The primary data were collected by questionnaire survey using a standardized instrument with a convenience sampling procedure, and efforts of the interviews involved an on-site, self-administrated questionnaire to those sitting or visiting tourist attractions. The total size of the sample was 276 of which 275 showed no missing value against the factors needed for final analysis and were for analysis as an effective sample. SPSS 13.0 for window was used to analyze the collected data on which descriptive statistics and the Limited Dependent(LIMDEP) 8.0 program was used in estimating the willingness-to-pay(WTP) for traditional Korean medical tourism through the Contingent Valuation Method(CVM). A dichotomous choice question form of a CVM was applied to estimating the value. 3. Results and Conclusion: 1. There was significant statistical relationship between attributes when considering medical tourism destination and socio-demographic profiles such as age group, nationality, educational level and occupation. 2. In the level of recognition on Korean medicine, north Americans showed low level of recognition compared to other nationalities. In addition, in terms of age group, 20's and 30's showed low level of recognition on Korean medicine, 3. In relation to the level of interest on Korean medicine, Japanese respondents had higher interesting level on Korean medicine. Also singles had higher level of interest. 4. Regarding preferred Korean medical treatment program, there found significant statistical relationship between Korean medical treatment program and socio-demographic characteristics. 5. The estimating result of the logit model showed that the variables affecting the WTP for Sasang Constitutional medicine diagnosis were offered price and potential ability of medical tourism destination. 6. In relation to WTP for Sasang Constitutional medicine diagnosis, Japanese respondents showed a WTP of USD 62.69 and Chinese respondents showed USD 57.09. On the other hands, respondents from north America and other countries showed a WTP of USD 65.50. In conclusion, from this study, the results found that the opportunities in tradition Korean medical tourism are immense and the possible rewards are numerous. It is time to continue to promote 'Sasang Constitutional medicine' and make the Korean medical tourism programs considering on nationalities, age group, gender and WTP.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.85-110
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• 2011

As Gangwon-do Province needs an environmental-friendly alternative tourism according to low carbon green growth, this study analyzes specialized fields in green health industry, selects seven specialized fields in green health industry that is fit to Gangwon-do Province, and suggests a development strategy by conducting recognition surveys on preference and impotence of the specialized fields. Surveys and interviews are conducted of 106 students at Green Health Industry Education Center which is operating by Kwandong University and 84 persons who work at medical institutions and tourism related companies in Ganwondo. The surveys and interviews were completed from November 5 to November 19 in 2010, determined factors through a factor analysis when they have many questions, and analyzed by using SPSS 14.0. Out of the seven specialized fields, rest & recuperation field is highly recognized. In order to have competitive edge compared to other self-governing provinces, Ganwon-do Province should prioritize rest and recuperation field. A healthcare program in the green health industry specific to Ganwon-do Province includes hot springs and spa programs as a priority. Gangwon-do's hot springs are deemed to be competitive resources as global medical tourists prefer spa and sauna healthcare programs, while the province promotes its spring resources and builds medical tourism infrastructures. Gangwon-do Province can promote a medical tourism industry that is well suitable for the strength and characteristics of the province. It might pursue oriental medicine therapy tourism, which is related to a recuperating medical service that uses both oriental and western medicine. It can also run such programs as forest bathing (oxygen road), spring and spa, and sea water treatment, which are the specialized fields in green health industry with respect to recreation and healthcare.