Internal Migration and Health in China

This book focuses on the multifaceted reality of social and health constraints and health services access among migrants in China, by originally exploring the social strata, social networks, and the understanding of health and health services among migrants. Furthermore, this book investigates the health constraints and health services access of rural-urban migrants in the absence of equal social protection by the government. It argues that the main obstacles to access health services are not only the shortage of financial resources among rural-urban migrants, but also lie in the institutional blindness regarding health security provision, rural-urban dualism and the household registration system in China. The book highlights the key function that social networks play in health and health services access among migrants in China, which has rarely been discussed in previous studies. And it also discusses the understanding of health among migrants, and further analyses that althoughmany migrants have not formed proper understanding of the connotation of health and have limited knowledge of health, prime responsibility should not be put on the migrants because their poor understanding of health mainly results from their rural perspective while health and health services access depend on the social-economic environment in which they live and work.
This book would be of interest to people in migration studies, social exclusion and social welfare studies and to people interested in rural-urban migration and health in China.

Covers the health constraints and health services access of rural-urban migrants in China Investigates environmental health risks of migrants, their health seeking behaviours, and the constraints encountered Discusses the health issues of migrants under China's 2016 reformed medical insurance scheme

Autorentext

Yan Li is a Professor of Social Policy at Nanjing University, China. He obtained a PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK. His main research areas are social security and social policy, migration studies, health inequalities and health promotion, social stratification and mobility, and China studies. Yan Li worked as a Lecturer and a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is also a Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK (FHEA). He has published in major international journals, including Social Science & Medicine, Qualitative Health Research, BMJ, Journal of Contemporary China, among others.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Current State of Knowledge on Health-related Issues among Migrants.- Chapter 3. The Methodology and Methods of the Research.- Chapter 4. Constraints on Health and Health Services Access: A Perspective on Social Strata.- Chapter 5. Social Networks: What Help and Limit?.- Chapter 6. Understanding of Health-related Issues: Health Constraints among Migrants.- Chapter 7. Conclusion and Discussion.