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Abstract
Background: Halal-friendly healthcare services have emerged as an important sector of the overall healthcare service delivery system. This study aimed to examine levels and determinants of expectations on halal-friendly healthcare services from the Muslim medical tourists' perspective.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in four cities, seventeen hospitals, across Iran, with a sample of 365 international Muslim medical tourists.
Results: Mean expectation score of the respondents was 3.95 ± 1.43. Being in the 25-34 age group (aOR = 2.65; CI 95%: 2.14-3.16), being married (aOR = 2.09; CI 95%: 1.46-2.72), having completed secondary education (aOR = 2.14; CI 95%: 1.26-3.02), belonging to a high-income socioeconomic background (aOR = 1.69; CI 95%: 1.06-2.33), coming from Iraq (aOR = 3.08; CI 95%: 2.12-4.04), being Shia (aOR = 2.83; CI 95%: 2.00-3.67), receiving information by recommendation as a source for travel decision (aOR = 3.02; CI 95%: 1.82-4.22), traveling with family or relatives (aOR=2.16; CI 95%: 1.42-2.90), receiving medical service of cosmetic surgery (aOR = 1.57; CI 95%: 1.22-1.92) and cardiovascular therapy (aOR = 2.33; CI 95%: 1.23-3.43), and traveling one or two times in the past (aOR = 2.33; CI 95%: 1.00-3.66) significantly increased the expectations on halal-friendly healthcare services.
Conclusion: This study will represent an important contribution to the literature concerned with the levels and drivers of expectations on halal-friendly healthcare services.
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Health Services Management Research (HSMR) is an authoritative international peer-reviewed journal which publishes theoretically and empirically rigorous research on questions of enduring interest to health-care organizations and systems throughout the world. Examining the real issues confronting health services management, it provides an independent view and cutting edge evidence-based research to guide policy-making and management decision-making. HSMR aims to be a forum serving an international community of academics and researchers on the one hand and healthcare managers, executives, policymakers and clinicians and all health professionals on the other. HSMR wants to make a substantial contribution to both research and managerial practice, with particular emphasis placed on publishing studies which offer actionable findings and on promoting knowledge mobilisation toward theoretical advances.
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