Does health insurance participation matter in shaping African immigrants' physical health in Guangzhou, China? The role of mental health.
China is a burgeoning immigrant‐receiving country, and policies on immigration are just beginning to be developed. While African immigration to China was uncommon 30 years ago, China has gradually become a major destination for African immigrants due to its robust economy, welcoming universities, an...
| Publicado en: | Population Space & Place Vol. 30; no. 6; pp. 1 - 16 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=178854470&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 178854470 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 15448444 1CA3 jtl: Population Space & Place issn: 15448444 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Aug2024 vid: 30 iid: 6 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 178854470 10.1002/psp.2780 ppf: 1 ppct: 15 formats: tig: atl: Does health insurance participation matter in shaping African immigrants' physical health in Guangzhou, China? The role of mental health. aug: au: Du, Haitao Zhang, Bo affil: Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China Guangdong Provincial Center for Urban and Migration Studies, Guangzhou, China su: Guangzhou (China) Health of immigrants Health insurance Africans Cost of living Well-being Health insurance exchanges sug: subj: Health of immigrants Health insurance Africans Cost of living Well-being Guangzhou (China) Direct individual life, health and medical insurance carriers Direct group life, health and medical insurance carriers Health insurance exchanges keyword: African immigrants Guangzhou mental health physical health purchasing health insurance African immigrants Guangzhou mental health physical health purchasing health insurance ab: China is a burgeoning immigrant‐receiving country, and policies on immigration are just beginning to be developed. While African immigration to China was uncommon 30 years ago, China has gradually become a major destination for African immigrants due to its robust economy, welcoming universities, and low cost of living. Currently, there are increasing numbers of African students and professionals who are migrating to China to study or work. The health status of African migrants in China shapes their wellbeing, which plays a key role in strengthening long‐term cooperative relations between China and African countries. Although previous literature has examined the socioeconomic status of these African immigrants, the role of health insurance participation in shaping the health status of African immigrants remains obscure in China. Using data from the 2019 questionnaire‐survey in Guangzhou, China, this paper investigates the underlying mechanism driving African immigrants' health insurance participation as critical to their physical and mental health. Our results demonstrate that health insurance participation is a pivotal factor in the overall health of African immigrants; specifically, purchasing health insurance and one's mental and physical health can be characterised as a feedback loop. Purchasing health insurance can positively impact mental health, and consequently, better mental health can improve physical health. Good physical health also tends to bolster mental health. Therefore, policies aimed at improving African immigrants' mental and physical health are expected to encourage them to purchase health insurance above their present low level of insurance participation. The proposal here is that health policymaking for immigrants should include the interaction mechanism between physical and mental health rather than focus only on physical health conditions. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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