Process Analysis of a Public Policy in Turkey: Medical Tourism

Abstract

Medical tourism field, which is a developing industry in terms of variety and popularity of medical interventions, generated in the formation of policy, implementation, understanding the efficiency and effectiveness would help to build Turkey's future projections. The purpose of the research is to analyze the policy of medical tourism in Turkey in the context of actors by using “Process Analysis Model”. In the study which is designed with qualitative method, case study design and purposive sampling methods are used. The findings are analyzed by content analysis method under the headings of the model: agenda setting, formulation, legitimation, implementation and evaluation. The common opinion that the actors of medical tourism do not fully utlise the potential of medical tourism potential in Turkey, underlines the importance of enhancing the participation and collaboration of stakeholders in increasing the market share in Turkey.

Keywords

• politics
• turkey
• medical tourism
• process analysis
• politika
• türkiye
• medikal turizm
• süreç analizi