TY  - JOUR
TI  - How dynamics of urbanization affect physical and mental health in urban China
AU  - Landry, Pierre
AU  - Chen, Juan
AU  - Davis, Deborah S
PY  - 2014
LA  - eng
KW  - Verstädterung
KW  - Arbeitsmobilität
KW  - Binnenwanderung
KW  - Wirkung
KW  - Auswirkung
KW  - Gesundheit
KW  - Psychische Störung
KW  - Krankheit
KW  - Volksrepublik China
KW  - Urbanisierung
KW  - Arbeitskräftemobilität
KW  - Wirkung/Auswirkung
KW  - Psychische Krankheit
KW  - People's Republic of China
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Labour mobility
KW  - Domestic migration
KW  - Effects/consequences
KW  - Health
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Diseases
AB  - Using a 2011 national survey of urban residents, irrespective of their official hukou status, and the 2000-2009 night-time light data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System (DMSPOLS), this paper goes beyond the simple dichotomy of migrant versus nonmigrant or rural versus urban hukou to disentangle the processes of urbanization and migration and their complex associations with health, and assesses the impact of various levels and speed of urbanization on the physical and mental health of current residents in a city or town. By disaggregating urbanization into three discrete dimensions at sub-provincial levels, we find that while a higher absolute level of urbanization at the county level negatively impacted self-reported physical health, faster and accelerating urbanization had a positive impact which could be attributed to the demand-pull effect underlying the healthy migrant phenomenon. By contrast, all three dimensions of urbanization were associated with greater depressive distress and thus had an adverse effect on residents' mental health. Beyond demonstrating how variation in the process and location of urbanization affects individual health, we also illustrate more broadly the value of modelling locational parameters in analyses of individual outcomes based on national samples. (China Q/GIGA)
T2  - The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China
IS  - 220
SN  - 0305-7410
SN  - 0009-4439
SN  - 1468-2648
SP  - 988-1011
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/kxp-1632438089
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -