TY  - JOUR
TI  - How Dynamics of Urbanization Affect Physical and Mental Health in Urban China
AU  - Chen, Juan
AU  - Chen, Shuo
AU  - Landry, Pierre F.
AU  - Davis, Deborah S.
PY  - 2014
PB  - Cambridge University Press (CUP)
LA  - eng
AB  - AbstractUsing a 2011 national survey of urban residents, irrespective of their officialhukoustatus, and the 2000–2009 night-time light data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS), this paper goes beyond the simple dichotomy of migrant versus non-migrant or rural versus urbanhukouto 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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741014001465
DO  - 10.1017/s0305741014001465
T2  - The China quarterly
VL  - 220
SN  - 1468-2648
SN  - 0305-7410
SP  - 988-1011
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/sw-9f1d3188f83a0f81
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -