Promoting labour migrant health equity through action on the structural determinants: A systematic review

Evagora-Campbell, Mireille; Zahidie, Aysha; Buse, Kent; Rabbani, Fauziah; Hawkes, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.jmh.2022.100082

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“…Moreover, the interventions addressed proximal health determinants such as financial literacy and mental health self-help. This is supported by findings from a systematic review of interventions on migrant worker health, which identified limited structural-level interventions, with the majority intervening on proximal health determinants [ 212 ]. Taken together, these findings indicate a need for further research on interventions for migrant and MDW health, particularly in addressing the structural determinants of health.…”

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The social determinants of migrant domestic worker (MDW) health and well-being in the Western Pacific Region: A Scoping Review

Chan,

Dominguez,

Hua

et al. 2024

PLOS Glob Public Health

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The health and well-being of transnational migrant domestic workers (MDWs) is a pressing but largely neglected public health concern. The Asia Pacific region is home to over 20% of the global MDW population. Living and working conditions, social contexts, political environments, and migration regimes are recognized as consequential to the health of this population, but currently no synthesis of available literature to prioritize research or policy agenda setting for MDW has yet been conducted. This scoping review screened 6,006 peer-reviewed articles and 1,217 gray literature sources, identifying 173 articles and 276 gray literature sources that reported key MDW health outcomes, social determinants of health, and related interventions. The majority of identified studies were observational and focused on the prevalence of common mental disorders and chronic physical conditions, with most studies lacking population representativeness. Identified social determinants of health were primarily concerned with personal social and financial resources, and health knowledge and behaviors, poor living and working conditions, community resources, experienced stigma and discrimination, poor healthcare access, exploitation within the MDW employment industry, and weak governance. Six interventional studies were identified that targeted individual-level health determinants such as financial and health knowledge with mixed effectiveness. Future population representative epidemiological and respondent driven sampling studies are needed to estimate population health burdens. In addition, randomized control trials and public health intervention studies are needed to improve women’s health outcomes and address proximal health determinants to reduce health inequalities. Leveraging social networks and community facing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are promising directions to overcome access to care for this population.

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The social determinants of migrant domestic worker (MDW) health and well-being in the Western Pacific Region: A Scoping Review

Chan,

Dominguez,

Hua

et al. 2024

PLOS Glob Public Health

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“…In the US, employment-contingent health insurance has lower premiums, and job candidates would prefer jobs with employer-sponsored health insurance benefits [12,13]. However, the employer-sponsored health insurance in the US is not transferrable [14][15][16]. On one hand, this has the effect of job lock, i.e., employees may have to continue their job, which they might prefer to leave, due to the risk of losing health insurance, lowering the labor force mobility [17][18][19].…”

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Unlocking Opportunities for Migrant Workers in China: Analyzing the Impact of Health Insurance on Hukou Switching Intentions

Chen

Qin

et al. 2023

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The Chinese urban–rural binary health insurance structure has contributed to a significant urban–rural segmentation and regional fragmentation, which will affect labor mobilization and urbanization. The purpose of this research is to study whether and how urban–rural binary health insurance impacts the intentions of migrant workers to switch between rural and urban hukou. Pooled data were drawn from China Migrants Dynamic Survey, collected by the National Health Commission of China. The study applied the instrument variable model due to the existence of the endogeneity; and the IVprobit model to conduct the empirical analysis. Our findings are as follows: (1) the urban–rural binary health insurance affects migrant workers’ intentions to switch to urban hukou significantly. (2) The negative impact of originally rural health insurance on migrant workers’ intention of switching to urban hukou is relatively large for low-education-level migrant workers. (3) Compared with new generation of migrant workers, old migrant workers have higher health insurance dependency levels. Finally, our research suggested several policy implications, such as accelerating the establishment of a unified urban–rural health insurance system, increasing the urban health insurance participation rate of migrant workers in their working cities, and including migrant workers in the scope of equal access to urban public services, etc. All the policy suggestions are essential in order to accelerate the citizenization of migrant workers, improve the quality of urbanization, and promote the construction of a unified national labor market.

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Influence of labor migration on rural household food waste in China: Application of propensity score matching (PSM)

Shen,

Ru,

Wang

et al. 2024

Journal of Environmental Management

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Promoting labour migrant health equity through action on the structural determinants: A systematic review

Cited by 7 publications

References 53 publications

The social determinants of migrant domestic worker (MDW) health and well-being in the Western Pacific Region: A Scoping Review

The social determinants of migrant domestic worker (MDW) health and well-being in the Western Pacific Region: A Scoping Review

Unlocking Opportunities for Migrant Workers in China: Analyzing the Impact of Health Insurance on Hukou Switching Intentions

Influence of labor migration on rural household food waste in China: Application of propensity score matching (PSM)

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