The Analysis of the Concepts of Network Governance in Medical Tourism Field

Subject Areas : Public Policy In Administration

ROSTAM  GHAREHDAGHI ¹ (Public Administration,Islamic Azad University,Miyaneh,Iran)
zahra  rajaei ² (department of public administration,,, Payame Noor University, tehran,, Iran)
Arezu  ََAghamohamadi ³ (.)
mohammad  Mahdilo ⁴ (گروه علوم اقتصادی،واحد میانه،دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی،میانه، ایران.)

Received: 2022-05-12 Accepted : 2022-11-11 Published : 2023-05-22

Keywords: network governance, Medical tourism, healthcare centers, Public Policy-making,

Abstract :

As one of the aspects of tourism, medical tourism contributes to the sustainable development and dynamism of countries. This research was carried for identifying the themes of network governance in the direction of medical tourism, and the validation of the model was done with first and second order factor analysis. The current research is applied, qualitative and quantitative in terms of the implementation process, descriptive in terms of exploratory purpose, and cross-sectional in terms of time. The statistical population in the qualitative section was conducted purposefully and with the maximum diversity sampling method, and after reaching the category saturation limit, 31 experts were finally used. And in the quantitative part of the research, it includes medical tourists referring to medical centers in Tabriz, the sample size was 384 people. In the quantitative part of the questionnaire made by the researcher based on extracted codes, the analysis and coding of interviews was done in the qualitative part with the help of MAXQDA software, in this regard, 79 codes were identified in line with open coding, 3 codes were identified in line with axial coding, and the validity of the model It was confirmed by factor analysis