Medical Tourists and Practitioners’ Responses to Sexual Harassment in SME Healthcare

Authors

  • Nuraisyah Chua Abdullah Faculty of Law, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
  • Herwina Rosnan Arshad Ayub Graduate Business School, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
  • Norzayana Yusof Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v3i14.164

Keywords:

Sexual Harassment, Behaviour, Medical Practitioners, Medical Tourists

Abstract

SME Healthcare are at risk of sexual harassment in the workplace due to several barriers resulting in medical professionals leaving the workforce and reduced productivity. The paper attempts to bridge the gap between the existing findings in general healthcare with medical tourism settings focusing on the medical tourists' behaviour in the destination country and the behaviour of medical practitioners in healthcare SMEs, who may be exposed to sexual harassment at workplace. Thus, this study urge for corrective actions in the medical tourism industry in ensuring the safety of medical tourists and practitioners in the rising demand for medical tourism.

Keywords: Sexual Harassment; Behaviour; Medical Practitioners; Medical Tourists

eISSN 2398-4295 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. 

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2018-11-19

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Abdullah, N. C., Rosnan, H., & Yusof, N. (2018). Medical Tourists and Practitioners’ Responses to Sexual Harassment in SME Healthcare. Asian Journal of Behavioural Studies, 3(14), 54–67. https://doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v3i14.164

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