Bibliometric examination of health tourism in the context of hygiene

Objective: In recent years, health tourism has been increasing its importance in terms of both the development of national economies and improving the quality of health systems.Health tourism is summarized as the visit of people who demand treatment to different regions in order to access high-cost treatments outside the region where they live, often at lower prices.Health tourism is included in the literature not only in terms of access to lower-priced services, but also as a form of tourism that occurs when individuals who demand the service want to access quality services.This study aims to evaluate the publications on health tourism, which consumers apply in line with their needs, from different perspectives, to reveal the diffusion and relationships of existing studies and to examine the hygiene effect. Methods:The data used in this study were obtained from studies published only in the English language by filtering the studies in "Scopus" and "WoS" (Web of Science) databases between 2020-2024.In the retrieval of the data, restrictions were made as "health tourism" in titles, abstracts and keywords and "hygiene" in all