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Huang L, Said R, Goh HC, Cao Y. The Residential Environment and Health and Well-Being of Chinese Migrant Populations: A Systematic Review. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2023; 20:2968. [PMID: 36833663 PMCID: PMC9957064 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20042968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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China's internal migrants suffer from marginalised housing conditions, poor neighbourhood environments and residential segregation, which may have significant implications on health and well-being. Echoing recent calls for interdisciplinary research on migrant health and well-being, this study examines the associations and mechanisms of the impact of the residential environment on the health and well-being of Chinese migrants. We found that most of the relevant studies supported the "healthy migration effect", but the phenomenon was only applicable to migrants' self-reported physical health rather than mental health. The subjective well-being of migrants is lower than that of urban migrants. There is a debate between the effectiveness of residential environmental improvements and the ineffectiveness of residential environmental improvements in terms of the impact of the neighbourhood environment on migrants' health and well-being. Housing conditions and the neighbourhood's physical and social environment can enhance migrants' health and well-being by strengthening place attachment and social cohesion, building localised social capital and gaining neighbourhood social support. Residential segregation on the neighbourhood scale affects the health outcomes of migrant populations through the mechanism of relative deprivation. Our studies build a vivid and comprehensive picture of research to understand migration, urban life and health and well-being.
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- Liyan Huang
- Centre for Sustainable Urban Planning and Real Estate (SUPRE), Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
- School of Management, University of Suzhou, Suzhou 234000, China
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- Centre for Sustainable Urban Planning and Real Estate (SUPRE), Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
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- Centre for Sustainable Urban Planning and Real Estate (SUPRE), Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
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von Reichert C, Berry EH. Rural-urban patterns of disability: The role of migration. POPULATION, SPACE AND PLACE 2019; 1:1-18. [PMID: 33762900 PMCID: PMC7985984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Disability rates are higher in rural than in urban areas of the United States, raising the question: do residential preferences and selective migration of people with disabilities play a role in higher rural disability rates? Utilising concepts of environmental fit from the disability literature and ideas from classic, residential preference, and household migration studies, we examine the 2011-2015 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample to understand whether migration contributes to higher rural disability. Results show only slightly different propensities to stay in rural than in urban areas and similar destination choices of people with or without disability, suggesting that migration does little to explain higher rates of rural disability. However, we detect noteworthy differences in age migration schedules for persons with disability, persons without disability in households with disability, and persons without disability in households without disability. Disability emerges as a relevant, although underresearched, dimension in household migration research.
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- Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, U.S.A
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Li M, Li WQ, Li LMW. Sensitive Periods of Moving on Mental Health and Academic Performance Among University Students. Front Psychol 2019; 10:1289. [PMID: 31263436 PMCID: PMC6585164 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2019] [Accepted: 05/16/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Moving within and across nations becomes a non-reversible increasing trend globally. The current research investigated the unique effect of residential mobility at different developmental stages (i.e., early childhood, late childhood, and adolescence) on university students' mental health and academic performance. In addition, we investigated the role of two different types of coping resources, i.e., resilience and family income, in moderating the negative effect of residential mobility. The data from 3753 first-year university students revealed that: (1) residential mobility in late childhood and adolescence (but not in early childhood) predicted poorer mental health among university students; (2) high resilience and higher family income alleviated the association of residential mobility in adolescence and mental health status; and (3) residential mobility in adolescence (but not in early childhood and late childhood) was associated with poorer academic performance but this pattern was not moderated by resilience or family income. The theoretical implications and practical implications of these findings were discussed.
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- Ming Li
- Centre for Mental Health, Jishou University, Jishou, China
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- Department of Behavioral Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Psychology and Centre for Psychosocial Health, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong
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Gartner A, Farewell D, Greene G, Trefan L, Davies A, Fone D, Paranjothy S. Does selective migration alter socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Wales?: a record-linked total population e-cohort study. SSM Popul Health 2018; 5:48-54. [PMID: 29892695 PMCID: PMC5993157 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2018] [Revised: 05/08/2018] [Accepted: 05/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Recent studies found evidence of health selective migration whereby healthy people move to less deprived areas and less healthy people move to or stay in more deprived areas. There is no consensus, however, on whether this influences health inequalities. Measures of socio-economic inequalities in mortality and life expectancy are widely used by government and health services to track changes over time but do not consider the effect of migration. This study aims to investigate whether and to what extent migration altered the observed socioeconomic gradient in mortality. Data for the population of Wales (3,136,881) registered with the National Health Service on 01/01/2006 and follow-up for 24 quarters were individually record-linked to ONS mortality files. This included moves between lower super output areas (LSOAs), deprivation quintiles and rural-urban class at each quarter, age, sex, and date of death. Cox regression models were used to estimate the hazard ratios for the deprivation quintiles in all-cause mortality, as well as deprivation change between the start and end of the study. We found evidence of health selective migration in some groups, for example people aged under 75 leaving the most deprived areas having a higher mortality risk than those they left behind, suggesting widening inequalities, but also found the opposite pattern for other migration groups. For all ages, those who lived in the most deprived quintile had a 57% higher risk of death than those in the least deprived quintile, allowing deprivation to vary with moves over time. There was little change in this risk when people were artificially kept in their deprivation quintile of origin (54% higher). Overall, migration during the six year window did not substantially alter the deprivation gradient in mortality in Wales between 2006 and 2011. Health selective migration was found for selected subgroups. Change to inequalities varied by direction of deprivation change and age group. Migration overall did not alter the socioeconomic gradient in mortality in Wales.
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- Andrea Gartner
- Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Cardiff University, 3rd Floor, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4YS, United Kingdom
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- Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Cardiff University, 3rd Floor, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4YS, United Kingdom
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- Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Cardiff University, 3rd Floor, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4YS, United Kingdom
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- Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Cardiff University, 3rd Floor, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4YS, United Kingdom
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- Public Health Wales NHS Trust, 2 Capital Quarter, Tyndall Street, Cardiff CF10 4BZ, United Kingdom
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- Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Cardiff University, 3rd Floor, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4YS, United Kingdom
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- Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Cardiff University, 3rd Floor, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4YS, United Kingdom
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Tunstall H, Shortt NK, Pearce JR, Mitchell RJ. Difficult Life Events, Selective Migration and Spatial Inequalities in Mental Health in the UK. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0126567. [PMID: 26018595 PMCID: PMC4446101 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2014] [Accepted: 04/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Objective Research has indicated that people moving towards neighbourhoods with disadvantaged socio-economic status have poor health, in particular mental health, but the reasons for this are unclear. This study aims to assess why people moving towards more socio-economically deprived areas have poor mental health. It focuses upon the role of difficult life events that may both trigger moves and damage mental health. This study investigates how mental health and socio-spatial patterns of mobility vary between people moving following difficult life events and for other reasons. Methods Longitudinal analysis of British Household Panel Survey data describing adults’ moves between annual survey waves, pooled over ten years, 1996-2006 (N=122,892 observations). Respondents were defined as ‘difficult life event movers’ if they had experienced relationship breakdown, housing eviction/repossession, or job loss between waves. Respondents were categorised as moving to more or less deprived quintiles using their Census Area Statistic residential ward Carstairs score. Mental health was indicated by self-reported mental health problems. Binary logistic regression models of weighted data were adjusted for age, sex, education and social class. Results The migration rate over one year was 8.5%; 14.1% of movers had experienced a difficult life event during this time period. Adjusted regression model odds of mental health problems among difficult life event movers were 1.67 (95% CI 1.35-2.07) relative to other movers. Odds of difficult life events movers, compared to other movers, moving to a less deprived area, relative to an area with a similar level of deprivation, were 0.70 (95% CI 0.58-0.84). Odds of mental health problems among difficult life event movers relocating to more deprived areas were highly elevated at 2.40 (95% CI 1.63-3.53), relative to stayers. Conclusion Difficult life events may influence health selective patterns of migration and socio-spatial trajectories, reducing moves to less deprived neighbourhoods among people with mental illness.
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- Helena Tunstall
- Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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