Medical Transnationalism examines Korean immigrants’ distinctive
healthcare behaviors, contributing factors to their medical tourism,
and their experiences and evaluations of medical tourism. Analyzing
survey data of 507 Korean immigrants and in-depth interviews with 120
Korean immigrants in the New York–New Jersey area, this book finds
that there are three distinctive types of healthcare behaviors that
Korean immigrants employ to deal with their barriers (e.g., the
language barrier and not having health insurance) to formal US
healthcare: dependence on co-ethnic doctors in the United States, the
use of Hanbang (traditional Korean medicine) in the United States, and
medical tours to the homeland. This book also finds that social
transnational ties and health insurance status are the most
influential contributing factors to Korean immigrants’ decision to
take medical tours to the home country. The vast majority of Korean
immigrant medical tourists are satisfied with their medical tourism
experiences. In this book, Sou Hyun Jang makes both empirical and
theoretical contributions to the literature on immigrant healthcare
and immigrant transnationalism by focusing on one immigrant group and
connecting medical transnationalism to other types of
transnationalism. The findings of this book imply that health programs
for the most marginalized group—small business owners and their
employees—and better support for bilingual Korean-English
translators at hospitals are needed.
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Korean Immigrants' Medical Tourism to South Korea
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781498563338
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Lexington Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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