THE INCREASING TREND OF MEDICAL TOURIST FROM NORTH SUMATERA TO MALAYSIA: ANALYSIS ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS

Destanul AULİA; Sri FAJARAYU

Makale detayları

THE INCREASING TREND OF MEDICAL TOURIST FROM NORTH SUMATERA TO MALAYSIA: ANALYSIS ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS

Yazarlar:

Destanul AULİA | Sri FAJARAYU

Yayıncı:

Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Derneği

Dergi:

International Journal of Economics and Finance Studies 2013 Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.74-84

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/2013

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000810974

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

1309-8055

Özet:

 

It is MacReady (2007) who believed that there will be an up in the trend of
 medical tourism, this industry will grow about 20% worldwide. This could
 happen because of the socioe-conomic factors that support this condition. As
 reported by SERI (2004), Leng (2006) and Tourism Malaysia (2010), Indonesian
 patients have been the largest foreign patients visited Malaysia. This trend is
 interesting to learn further and this study aims at finding out the macroeconomic
 factors which have influenced the numbers of people from North Sumatera
 seeking for medical treatment in Malaysia. Using secondary data, this survey
 study has regressed the number of North Sumatran medical tourist (as the
 dependent variable) for the period of 2000-2011 to the independent variables such
 as exchange rate, inflation and income per capita in order to find out the economic
 determinant of number of medical tourists from North Sumatera. The
 demographic determinant choosen to study as the only independent variable is
 population for the same period of study. Finally, in order to incorporate the health
 seeking behavior point of view, this study used independent variables such as life
 expectancy, health facilities, number of doctors and level of education as the
 determinant for the number of medical tourists from North Sumatera. The result
 of regression for economic determinant showed that income and exchange rate
 were positively and statistically significant determinant for the number of medical
 tourists while the independent variable of inflation is not responsive to the
 changes in the dependent variable of number of medical tourist. The result of
 single regression of the independent variable of population was found
 significantly and positively to have affected the number of medical tourist. From
 four of the health seeking behaviours as dependent variables, it is found that life
 expectancy and the number of health facilities was responsive to the changes of
 the number of medical tourist while the number of doctors and level of education
 was not.

Makale detayları

THE INCREASING TREND OF MEDICAL TOURIST FROM NORTH SUMATERA TO MALAYSIA: ANALYSIS ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS

Yazarlar: Destanul AULİA | Sri FAJARAYU

Yayıncı: Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Derneği

Dergi: International Journal of Economics and Finance Studies 2013 Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.74-84

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 5/2013

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2000810974

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 1309-8055

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Destanul AULİA | Sri FAJARAYU

Yayıncı:

Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Derneği

Dergi:

International Journal of Economics and Finance Studies 2013 Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.74-84

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/2013

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000810974

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

1309-8055