Poverty and Health: Children of Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers in Beijing, China

	Poverty and Health: Children of Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers in Beijing, China
	Cao, Yang; Liu, Zhengkui
摘要	China's domestic rural-to-urban migration has reached a stage where migration in family units is common, and basic data on the wellbeing of these families in urban settings are required for adequate social services. To obtain such data, we conducted a large-scale (N = 16,550) cross-sectional survey in Beijing of rural-to-urban migrant workers' children attending the fourth through ninth grades, including subsamples classified as poor (18.3 % of the total) and non-poor (16.1 %). Those in the non-poor group were comparable in affluence to the host population average. We found that overall physical health was good, with no difference between the poor and non-poor groups. Poor children, however, had worse mental health, and were at higher risk of mental health problems because of lower self-esteem, less family support, and lower monthly household income than non-poor children. This is the first study to analyze data obtained from poor children who constitute nearly one-fifth of the domestic migrant population in China. In addition to pointing out the higher level of risk for this group's mental health, our research suggests a need for countermeasures to improve self-esteem, maintain physical health, and emphasize family support. These results will help enable future hypothesis-verification mode survey research to illuminate general determinants and regulatory processes of health for migrant children, by providing large-scale survey data for a representative upper-middle-income country for comparison with previously accumulated data from high-income countries .
关键词	Migrant children Poverty Mental health Physical health Self-esteem Family support
	2015-09-01
语种	英语
发表期刊	SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
ISSN	0303-8300
卷号	123 期号:2 页码:459-477
期刊论文类型	Article
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000360006900008
引用统计	被引频次：21[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/15232
专题	中国科学院心理健康重点实验室
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Mental Hlth, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
第一作者单位	中国科学院心理健康重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Cao, Yang,Liu, Zhengkui. Poverty and Health: Children of Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers in Beijing, China[J]. SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH,2015,123(2):459-477.
APA	Cao, Yang,&Liu, Zhengkui.(2015).Poverty and Health: Children of Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers in Beijing, China.SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH,123(2),459-477.
MLA	Cao, Yang,et al."Poverty and Health: Children of Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers in Beijing, China".SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH 123.2(2015):459-477.

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