Neighborhood-health links: Differences between rural-to-urban migrants and natives in Shanghai

Gu, Danan; Zhu, Haiyan; Wen, Ming

doi:10.4054/demres.2015.33.17

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“…Among the perceived neighborhood characteristics, it turned out that neighborhood safety in the host city was essential. This result is congruent with earlier work that reported that safety in the living environment is related more strongly to migrants’ reduced psychological stress level in the host city than any other neighborhood physical characteristic [ 76 ].…”

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Assessing the perceived changes in neighborhood physical and social environments and how they are associated with Chinese internal migrants’ mental health

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Background Migrants experience substantial changes in their neighborhood physical and social environments along their migration journeys, but little is known about how perceived changes in their neighborhood environment pre- and post-migration correlate with their mental health. Our aim was to examine the associations between recalled changes in the perceived neighborhood physical and social environments and migrants’ mental health in the host city. Methods We used cross-sectional data on 591 migrants in Shenzhen, China. We assessed their risk of mental illness using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). Neighborhood perceptions were collected retrospectively pre- and post-migration. We used random forests to analyze possibly non-linear associations between GHQ scores and changes in the neighborhood environment, variable importance, and for exploratory analysis of variable interactions. Results Perceived changes in neighborhood aesthetics, safety, and green space were non-linearly associated with migrants’ mental health: A decline in these characteristics was associated with poor mental health, while improvements in them were unrelated to mental health benefits. Variable importance showed that change in safety was the most influential neighborhood characteristic, although individual-level characteristics—such as self-reported physical health, personal income, and hukou (i.e., the Chinese household registration system)—appeared to be more important to explain GHQ scores and also strongly interacted with other variables. For physical health, we found different associations between changes in the neighborhood provoked by migration and mental health. Conclusion Our findings suggest that perceived degradations in the physical environment are related to poorer post-migration mental health. In addition, it seems that perceived changes in the neighborhood environment play a minor role compared to individual-level characteristics, in particular migrants’ physical health condition. Replication of our findings in longitudinal settings is needed to exclude reverse causality.

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Assessing the perceived changes in neighborhood physical and social environments and how they are associated with Chinese internal migrants’ mental health

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“…Many previous studies have found that both objective neighborhood characteristics [ 64 – 66 ] and subjective neighborhood characteristics [ 67 , 68 ] were related to health. However, the subjective aspect was not only strongly associated with health, but also could mediate associations between the objective aspects (neighborhood disadvantage and affluence) and health when being examined at the same time [ 69 , 70 ]. Three dimensions of neighborhood environments were assessed.…”

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Neighborhood environments and self-rated health in Mainland China, Japan and South Korea

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Neighborhood environments are considered crucial determinants of self-rated health. Previous research has documented a positive association between the quality of neighborhood environments and health status. However, the relationship between neighborhood environments and health status in East Asian countries has received far less attention. This study examined the relationship between the three main types of neighborhood environments (built, natural, and social) and self-rated health in Mainland China, Japan, and South Korea. It also compared the neighborhood effects on self-rated health across the three countries. Our analytical sample included 3,675, 2,390, and 1,500 respondents in China, Japan, and South Korea respectively from the 2010 East Asian Social Survey. Ordinal Logistic Regression models were estimated for each country and the country differences were tested. This study found that neighborhood built, natural and social environments are positively associated with self-rated health in China, Japan and South Korea. These effects vary somewhat by country, and neighborhood social environment has the strongest association with self-rated health in Japan, followed by South Korea and then China. The similar relationship between perceived neighborhood environments and self-rated health across the three countries underscores the prevalent impact of perceived neighborhood environments on health. The greater association between social environment and self-rated health in Japan suggests the greater need of community based support system in an aging society not only for the older people, but also for the general population, especially those who are living in poor neighborhood social environment.

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“…The health migrant effect has been widely tested in studies related to China's migrant populations. Fourteen of the selected studies compared the health status of rural-urban migrants and local urban residents: of these, six studies reported on the "healthy migration phenomenon" of rural migrants, in which the migrant population's self-reported health was better than local residents [37,[44][45][46][47][48]. Gu et al [45] found that migrant workers were healthier than urban natives in terms of self-rated health status, perceived stress and chronic diseases due to self-selection effects.…”

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The Residential Environment and Health and Well-Being of Chinese Migrant Populations: A Systematic Review

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et al. 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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Neighborhood-health links: Differences between rural-to-urban migrants and natives in Shanghai

Cited by 11 publications

References 76 publications

Assessing the perceived changes in neighborhood physical and social environments and how they are associated with Chinese internal migrants’ mental health

Assessing the perceived changes in neighborhood physical and social environments and how they are associated with Chinese internal migrants’ mental health

Neighborhood environments and self-rated health in Mainland China, Japan and South Korea

The Residential Environment and Health and Well-Being of Chinese Migrant Populations: A Systematic Review

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