2016
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148397
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Association between Social Integration and Health among Internal Migrants in ZhongShan, China

Abstract: Internal migrants are the individuals who migrate between regions in one country. The number of internal migrants were estimated at 245 million in China in 2013. Results were inconsistent in the literature about the relationship between their health statuses and social integration. The main difference exists on how to measure the social integration and whether health statuses of internal migrants improve with years of residence. To complement the existing literature, this study measured social integration more… Show more

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“…We observed that female elderly migrants performed better in terms of social attachment than female non-migrants, particularly in leisure activities. This finding was inconsistent with those of previous studies, which reported that migrants experienced poor social adaptation and integration [7,21,36]. This inconsistency may be related to differences in the selection of the control group, which comprised non-migrant rural elderly people in our study but local citizens in other studies.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 99%
“…We observed that female elderly migrants performed better in terms of social attachment than female non-migrants, particularly in leisure activities. This finding was inconsistent with those of previous studies, which reported that migrants experienced poor social adaptation and integration [7,21,36]. This inconsistency may be related to differences in the selection of the control group, which comprised non-migrant rural elderly people in our study but local citizens in other studies.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 99%
“…We observed that female elderly migrants performed better in terms of social attachment than female non-migrants, particularly in leisure activities. This nding was inconsistent with those of previous studies, which reported that migrants experienced poor social adaptation and integration [7,21,36]. This inconsistency may be related to differences in the selection of the control group, which comprised non-migrant rural elderly people in our study but local citizens in other studies.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 99%
“…With medical model transformation from a biomedical model to a bio-psycho-social model, recent evidence has been show that factors such as social capital [5], social integration [6] and social-economic factors (gender, education, marital status, immigrant status) may be important for migrant older adults' health. Among them, social capital and social integration were popular in international health research [7] and social science disciplines as well as the field of public health [8,9].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%