Twelve From health to tourism: being mobile in the wellness sector in Hungary
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Katalin Formadi
Abstract
This chapter examines cross-mobility in the emerging field of employment in the health and wellness tourist sector in Hungary, thereby extending the notion of professional development to a sector currently outside the scope of public control. It explores the patterns of movement, the strategies of employees’ mobility and career pathways in the health and wellness tourism (HWT) sector. It combines approaches from the sociology of professions and sociology of work with career studies, arguing that the professionalisation of an occupational field determines the career possibilities of employees. While the emerging HWT sector cannot provide well-defined organisational career pathways, it may offer employees more freedom in managing their careers and lives.
Abstract
This chapter examines cross-mobility in the emerging field of employment in the health and wellness tourist sector in Hungary, thereby extending the notion of professional development to a sector currently outside the scope of public control. It explores the patterns of movement, the strategies of employees’ mobility and career pathways in the health and wellness tourism (HWT) sector. It combines approaches from the sociology of professions and sociology of work with career studies, arguing that the professionalisation of an occupational field determines the career possibilities of employees. While the emerging HWT sector cannot provide well-defined organisational career pathways, it may offer employees more freedom in managing their careers and lives.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- Notes on contributors vi
- Changing patterns of health professional governance 1
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New directions in the governance of healthcare
- Protecting patients: international trends in medical governance 15
- Global markets and national pathways of medical re-regulation 29
- Governing beyond markets and managerialism: professions as mediators 45
- Trust relations and changing professional governance: theoretical challenges 61
- Professionalism meets entrepreneurialism and managerialism 77
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Drivers and barriers to integration: health policies and professional development
- Collaborative care and professional boundaries: maternity care in Canada 95
- Interprofessional relationships: doctors and nurses in Slovenia 111
- Educating generalists: flexibility and identity in auxiliary nursing in Finland 127
- Culture matters: integration of folk medicine into healthcare in Russia 141
- Policy dynamics: marginal groups in the healthcare division of labour in the UK 155
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Workforce dynamics: gender, migration and mobility
- Free riders in a fluid system: gender traps in agency nursing in Norway 173
- From health to tourism: being mobile in the wellness sector in Hungary 187
- Migration and occupational integration: foreign health professionals in Portugal 201
- Professionals in transition: physicians’ careers, migration and gender in Lithuania 217
- Health policy and workforce dynamics: the future 231
- Index 245
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- Notes on contributors vi
- Changing patterns of health professional governance 1
-
New directions in the governance of healthcare
- Protecting patients: international trends in medical governance 15
- Global markets and national pathways of medical re-regulation 29
- Governing beyond markets and managerialism: professions as mediators 45
- Trust relations and changing professional governance: theoretical challenges 61
- Professionalism meets entrepreneurialism and managerialism 77
-
Drivers and barriers to integration: health policies and professional development
- Collaborative care and professional boundaries: maternity care in Canada 95
- Interprofessional relationships: doctors and nurses in Slovenia 111
- Educating generalists: flexibility and identity in auxiliary nursing in Finland 127
- Culture matters: integration of folk medicine into healthcare in Russia 141
- Policy dynamics: marginal groups in the healthcare division of labour in the UK 155
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Workforce dynamics: gender, migration and mobility
- Free riders in a fluid system: gender traps in agency nursing in Norway 173
- From health to tourism: being mobile in the wellness sector in Hungary 187
- Migration and occupational integration: foreign health professionals in Portugal 201
- Professionals in transition: physicians’ careers, migration and gender in Lithuania 217
- Health policy and workforce dynamics: the future 231
- Index 245
