Health status and health-seeking behaviour between interprovincial and intraprovincial rural-to-urban young migrants in Nanjing, China

Asia-Pacific Population Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-54

  Zhang, Liying ^a   Li, Xiaoming ^a   Yang, Hongmei ^b   Mao, Rong ^c   Zhao, Qun ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; INTERNAL MIGRATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION;

CHINA; JIANGSU; NANJING [JIANGSU];

EID: 84873531697     PISSN: 0259238X     EISSN: 15644278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18356/c2601935-en     Document Type: Article

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