Medical Transnationalism (eBook)

Korean Immigrants' Medical Tourism to South Korea

Sou Hyun Jang (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
150 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6333-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This comprehensive book, with the analysis of a large-scale survey and in-depth personal interviews through the lens of social theory, covers different aspects of Korean immigrants’ barriers to formal US healthcare and their distinctive healthcare behaviors to cope with these barriers.

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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 YorkNew 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 groupsmall business owners and their employeesand better support for bilingual Korean-English translators at hospitals are needed.

Autor

Sou Hyun Jang is research associate at the Research Center for Korean Community at Queens College.

Inhalt

Introduction1. Literature Review and Background Information2. The Development of Medical Tourism in Korea and the Related Issues3. Korean Immigrants’ Healthcare Behaviors in the US4. Factors Contributing to Korean Immigrants’ Medical Tourism5. Korean Immigrants’ Medical Tourism Experience and EvaluationConclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Korean Communities across the World
• Zusatzinfo: 20 Illustrations including: - 20 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Barriers to Healthcare Utilization • Co-ethnic Doctors • Hanbang • Health • Healthcare • Healthcare Behaviors • immigrant health • immigrant transnationalism • Korean Healthcare • Korean immigrants • Medical Tourism • Medical Transnationalism • New Jersey Korean Community • New York Korean Community • New York-New Jersey Korean Community • transnationalism • U.S. Healthcare
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6333-3 / 1498563333
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6333-8 / 9781498563338