China’s Left-Behind Children: Impact Of Parental Migration On Health, Nutrition, And Educational Outcomes

Zhou, Chengchao; Sylvia, Sean; Zhang, Linxiu; Luo, Renfu; Yi, Hongmei; Liu, Chengfang; Shi, Yaojiang; Loyalka, Prashant; Chu, James; Medina, Alexis; Rozelle, Scott

doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0150

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“…Migrants have also had an enormous impact on the leprosy endemic in Guangdong province, accounting for 25% of all new leprosy cases from 2004 to 2013 and 38.3% in 2015 [9–12], with 88.0% of these patients living in the Pearl River Delta region alone [13]. Most of resident leprosy patients live in rural regions in eastern, western and northern Guangdong [14, 15]. …”

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Evaluation of the economic burden of leprosy among migrant and resident patients in Guangdong Province, China

Xiong

Zheng

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BMC Infect Dis

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BackgroundA lot of time and money was needed during the diagnosis and treatment process of leprosy, the delayed leprosy would also impair the labor capability of patients as well, and these put a heavy burden for the leprosy patients. The migrant leprosy patient is a special group and need more concern. Our goal was to assess the economic burden of leprosy on migrant and resident patient populations in Guangdong province, China.MethodsWe conducted a population-based cross-sectional survey from February to July of 2016. A self-designed questionnaire was administered to leprosy patients who: (1) had registered in Leprosy Management Information System in China (LEPMIS) by the end of February 2016, (2) had received multiple drug treatment (MDT) drugs at a local leprosy control institution for three consecutive months or had had at least one physical check in the past half year, and (3) were willing to take part in the investigation and give informed written consent. Demographic characteristics, Financial and disease information, and costs before and after leprosy diagnosis were collected and compared using t-test and χ2 test.ResultsA total of 254 participants completed the questionnaires, including 168 males and 86 females. Migrants and residents accounted for 33.9% and 66.1% of patients, respectively. Among migrant patients, the median cost before diagnosis was $131.6 (39.2–450.9), the median yearly cost of leprosy treatment after diagnosis was $300.6 (158.4–868.5), and the median yearly cost of leprosy complications was $69.5 (11–178.4). In comparison, among residents the median yearly costs were $152.4 (30.7–770.9) pre-diagnosis, $309.7 (103.2–1016.7) after diagnosis, and $91.9 (32.6–303.1) for leprosy complications. Base on this, we determined that the median yearly total expense after diagnosis amounted to 15% of migrant and 38% of resident patients’ annual income.ConclusionLeprosy places a heavy economic burden on both migrant and resident leprosy patients and governmental policies and programs could substantially alleviate this. Measures to implement more active surveillance and early diagnosis would benefit both populations, while labor protection and medical insurance are urgently needed for migrant patients and easier access to medical services and social aids could substantially decrease the burden of leprosy for resident patients.

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Evaluation of the economic burden of leprosy among migrant and resident patients in Guangdong Province, China

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BMC Infect Dis

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“…This study verifies that absence of parents contributes to road traffic injuries that occur among young people. World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund published the report focused on the five leading causes of child injury deaths being road traffic injuries, drowning, poisoning, burns and falls (19). Recent studies showed that adolescents separated from parents were disadvantaged in social emotional health; for example, and a majority of them have a higher prevalence of depression, suicide, anxiety, and substance abuse than those who are staying with parents.…”

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The impact of parental migration on injuries among left behind young people aged 10 years to 24 years in Botswana

Selotlegeng

2018

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“…For left‐behind children, parental migration may on the one hand improve their well‐being through remittances sent home or on the other, have adverse effects on their lives because of the absence of primary carers (Battistella & Conaco, ; Jia & Tian, ; Lam, Ee, Hoang, & Yeoh, ; Nguyen, Yeoh, & Toyota, ). While a significant share of the scholarship has centred on the impact of parental migration on the children (see, e.g., Adhikari et al, ; Sarma & Parinduri, ; Sun et al, ; C. C. Zhou et al, ), an emerging theme is beginning to focus on exploring children's experiences and perspectives of being left behind (Lam et al, ). This literature has given attention to children's voices and revealed the role—however limited—children play in their family's migration projects (Graham et al, ; Hoang et al, ; Hoang & Yeoh, ; Parreñas, ).…”

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Editorial introduction: Situated agency in the context of research on children, migration, and family in Asia

Choi

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Lam

2018

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Given far less attention than adult members in the burgeoning migration scholarship, children (and their parents) are brought to the foreground in this themed section as agentic subjects whose lives are linked to and impacted by migration processes operating across borders. In tandem with this focus, this special‐themed section situates the agency of children and their parents within broader socio‐economic structures of regional inequalities, local economic stagnation and cross‐border demand for low‐waged labour, state policy failures, ethnic group disparities, technological advances that facilitate cross‐border mobility, and the transnational performance of familyhood. By incorporating children's relationships with people and places nearby and afar and situating their agency within broader socio‐economic and political contexts, we hope that the analytical framework of “situated agency” developed in this themed section will encourage more studies linking macro structures with micro interpersonal dynamics and actions in growing Asia‐based research related to migration and mobility across space and place.

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China’s Left-Behind Children: Impact Of Parental Migration On Health, Nutrition, And Educational Outcomes

Cited by 194 publications

References 16 publications

Evaluation of the economic burden of leprosy among migrant and resident patients in Guangdong Province, China

Evaluation of the economic burden of leprosy among migrant and resident patients in Guangdong Province, China

The impact of parental migration on injuries among left behind young people aged 10 years to 24 years in Botswana

Editorial introduction: Situated agency in the context of research on children, migration, and family in Asia

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