04986nam a22006135i 4500 978-981-99-8624-8 DE-He213 20251030111401.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240123s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789819986248 978-981-99-8624-8 10.1007/978-981-99-8624-8 doi JV6225-6231 JHB bicssc JFFN bicssc SOC026000 bisacsh JHB thema JBFH thema Li, Yan. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 69850 Internal Migration and Health in China [electronic resource] : Choices, Constraints and Implications / by Yan Li. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIII, 200 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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. "A very fine and forensic piece of scholarship which sheds a fascinating light on the linkage between internal rural-urban migration and the access to and experience of health care in China. Highly recommended." Colin Hay, Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po, Paris 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 although many 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. 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. . Emigration and immigration Social aspects. 69851 Medical care. Economic policy. 58351 Social policy. 60914 Social medicine. 62456 Social structure. Equality. 59823 Sociology of Migration. 69852 Health Care. 66563 Socio-Economic Policy. 69624 Health, Medicine and Society. 69853 Social Structure. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789819986231 Printed edition: 9789819986255 Printed edition: 9789819986262 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8624-8 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 57288 57288