The impact of parental migration on health status and health behaviours among left behind adolescent school children in China

Gao, Yang; Ping Li, Li; Hee Kim, Jean; Congdon, Nathan; T. F. Lau, Joseph; M. Griffiths, Siân

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-56

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The impact of parental migration on health status and health behaviours among left behind adolescent school children in China

Published in BMC Public Health • Feb 3, 2010

Authors:

Yang Gao

Li Ping Li

Jean Hee Kim

Abstract

BACKGROUND: One out of ten of China's population are migrants, moving from rural to urban areas. Many leave their families behind resulting in millions of school children living in their rural home towns without one or both their parents. Little is known about the health status of these left behind ...

Subject

Biostatistics

Medicine

Public health

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