Despite these limitations, however, this study is the first to attempt an investigation of the dynamics of physicians working for public health administration agencies in Japan, and as such, its implications should be applicable to other countries facing the same problem.
It should be noted, however, that this implication was only applicable to Douglas-fir forests, which are in general low in tree species diversity.
More useful instruments are reports including a summary of key findings in combination with a reliable description of context and policy implications to make them applicable to specific national or international contexts [ 23, 25].
Thus, the policy implications described are broadly applicable to health systems in general, but of particular relevance to policymakers and industry practitioners in other Southeast Asian countries where governments have expressed an interest in developing the medical tourist industry.
Even though the participants of the SICME are mainly from Southeast Asian countries, we also discuss the relevant implications that would be applicable to other non-English-speaking developing countries, especially those countries who have been marginalized from existing international collaboration due to language barriers.
Although it is feasible that the implications may also be applicable to research in LMICs, the lack of experience of conducting studies of this kind in LMICs leaves open the possibility that LMIC-specific research issues may emerge if such experience accumulates.
The implications of the results are applicable to design icons for the interfacing of computers and communication information.
Unless we replicate this study using changes in other countries' EFL educational policies, we cannot be certain that the implications of this study are applicable to other contexts.
One possible limitation of this study is that the implications stated above are only applicable to (a) Japanese learners, (b) two monologic tasks, and (c) tasks with a female interviewer.
