Current State of Knowledge on Health-Related Issues Among Migrants

This chapter reviews the literature related to the research themes and issues. There are three major parts in this chapter. The first part is a review of rural–urban migration, including the socio-economic status of migrants, and migration studies in China. This section provides some background for the research. The second part reviews the health-relevant issues among rural–urban migrants, including choices of medical treatment, living and working environments, and the impacts of migration on health status. The third part reviews the health services system and its impact on health services access among migrants. Government health provision is reviewed in this section to highlight how the institutional changes that have occurred at the national level establish the status of rural–urban migrants within the health services system.