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Artificial Intelligence in Health Transgender healthcare

to the place of choice. One key aspect is the measurement and the specific use of healthcare options provided through
of AI in the context of medical tourism, which is based medical tourism. 42
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on the advantages and image of the destination. Travel
restrictions, both inherent and interactive, are addressed 3.2. Study population and sampling
to meet the needs of transgender travelers while reducing A quantitative research technique was used to investigate
healthcare service costs as depicted in Figure 2. This process many important topics, including medical tourism,
facilitates transgender medical travel for treatment and AI systems, medical travel and risk factors, attitude,
rehabilitation tourism, aiming to shorten wait times and behavioral intention, and destination image. Transgender
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improve integrated leisure travel through the use of AI travelers from middle-class and lower-middle-class
systems. 39 backgrounds shared their common aspirations and specific

3. Methodology interventions needed to address their healthcare and travel
requirements. Using a pragmatic research technique
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3.1. Respondent selection and positivist research paradigm, answers to problems in
Respondents relevant to the use of AI in medical tourism, medical travel and tourism were explored.
with a focus on the transgender community, were selected
for this study. 40,41 The respondent selection is based on the 3.3. Statistical analysis
qualifications, experience, travel categories for different Data collection and analysis were carried out to address
types of medical treatments needed by the transgenders, queries related to enhancing healthcare for transgender

Figure 1. The conceptual framework of this study
Abbreviation: AI: Artificial intelligence.

Attitude
Individual factors Destination image based on
Travel motivations attribution
Cost-saving
Modern procedure Behavior visit intention
High-quality services
Reduced waiting time
Combined leisure travelling Consumption values
Destination image based
on benefits
Perceived risks
Health
Service quality
Destination

Travel constraints
Intrinsic
Environmetal
Interactive
Figure 2. The theoretical model of medical tourism

Volume 2 Issue 2 (2025) 120 doi: 10.36922/aih.3384