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| Title |
UK medical tourists in Thailand: they are not who you think they are
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Globalization and Health, May 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1744-8603-10-29 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Thinakorn Noree, Johanna Hanefeld, Richard Smith |
| Abstract |
Travel for medical treatment is an aspect of globalization and health that is comparatively less understood. Little is known about volume, characteristic and motivation of medical tourists, limiting understanding of effects on health systems and patients. Thailand is amongst a handful of countries that have positioned themselves as medical tourism destination. This paper examines in unprecedented detail volume and characteristics of medical tourists who travel from the UK to Thailand for treatment. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 1 | 13% |
| Japan | 1 | 13% |
| Germany | 1 | 13% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 4 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 63% |
| Scientists | 2 | 25% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 81 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Czechia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 80 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 15% |
| Researcher | 10 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 13 | 16% |
| Unknown | 17 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 15 | 19% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 13 | 16% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 15% |
| Psychology | 5 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 10 | 12% |
| Unknown | 22 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 March 2018.
All research outputs
#4,560,129
of 25,311,095 outputs
Outputs from Globalization and Health
#659
of 1,220 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#41,537
of 234,434 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Globalization and Health
#4
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,311,095 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,220 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.9. This one is in the 45th percentile – i.e., 45% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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