نتایج جستجو برای: migrant health

تعداد نتایج: 986819  

2015
Chu-Hong Lu Zhong-Cheng Luo Jia-Ji Wang Jian-Hu Zhong Pei-Xi Wang

OBJECTIVES The number of rural-to-urban migrant workers has been increasing rapidly in China over recent decades, but there is a scarcity of data on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and health service utilization among Chinese rural-to-urban migrant workers in comparison to local urban residents. We aimed to address this question. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 2315 rural-t...

Journal: :Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening 2017

2017
Carine Milcent

How can healthcare access for Chinese migrants be improved? Migrant workers face two types of healthcare-access exclusion in the workplace: a financial one (via income) and a legislative one (from the hukou). We use 2006 data from a survey of rural migrant workers conducted in five of the most economically-advanced cities. We estimate a fixed-effect probit model, and control for the non-exogene...

2017
Benjamin Schilgen Albert Nienhaus Oriana Handtke Holger Schulz Mike Mösko

INTRODUCTION Globally, life expectancy together with multimorbidity and chronic diseases are increasing. This leads to a growing demand for care and hence for healthcare personnel and nurses. To meet this demand, healthcare workers from abroad are increasingly hired. The nurses' workplace in general is characterized by physically and psychologically demanding tasks, while that of migrant and mi...

2016
Bao-Liang Zhong Tie-Bang Liu Jian-Xing Huang Helene H. Fung Sandra S. M. Chan Yeates Conwell Helen F. K. Chiu

BACKGROUND Global literature has suggested a negative impact of acculturative stress on both physical and mental health among international migrants. In China, approximately 20 percent of its population is rural-to-urban migrant workers and there are significant cultural differences between rural and urban societies, but no data are available regarding the acculturative stress of Chinese migran...

2017
Naomi Tschirhart Sein Sein Thi Lei Lei Swe Francois Nosten Angel M Foster

BACKGROUND In Thailand's northwestern Tak province, contextual conditions along the border with Myanmar pose difficulties for TB control among migrant populations. Incomplete surveillance data, migrant patient mobility, and loss to follow-up make it difficult to estimate the TB burden and implement effective TB control measures. This multi-methods study examined tuberculosis, tuberculosis and h...

2012
Li Chen Wenhu Li Jincai He Lanhua Wu Zheng Yan Wenjie Tang

BACKGROUND 20 million migrant workers in China lost their jobs during the economic crisis of 2008. Both urban migration and unemployment have long been documented to be associated with vulnerability to mental problems. This study aims to examine the mental health of unemployed migrant workers in Eastern China and its relation to duration of unemployment and coping strategy during the recent eco...

2014
H. A. Hassan J. Houdmont

BACKGROUND The Middle East construction sector is heavily reliant on a migrant workforce that predominantly originates from South Asia. It is common practice for migrant construction workers to pay a local labour recruiter the equivalent of one or more years' prospective overseas salary to secure employment, work and travel permits and transportation. The occupational health and safety implicat...

Journal: :Health and human rights 2011
Sevil Sönmez Yorghos Apostolopoulos Diane Tran Shantyana Rentrope

Systematic violations of migrant workers' human rights and striking health disparities among these populations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are the norm in member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Migrant laborers comprise about 90 percent of the UAE workforce and include approximately 500,000 construction workers and 450,000 domestic workers. Like many other GCC members cou...

2015
Elspeth Graham Lucy P. Jordan Brenda S.A. Yeoh

The international migration of parents from the global south raises questions about the health impacts of family separation on those who stay behind. This paper uses data collected in 2008 and 2009 for a project on Child Health and Migrant Parents in South-East Asia (CHAMPSEA) to address a largely neglected research area by investigating the mental health of those who stay behind in Indonesia, ...

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