Medical Orientation of Young Migrants: Evidence from Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen Cities

Young migrants are increasingly dominating the trends in China's floating population.Studying medical orientation of the young migrants is important for understanding and addressing the medical problem of the young floating population,and can also provide theoretical basis for promoting the healthcare level,promote fair and reasonable allocation of healthcare resources,and improve medicare policy for the young floating population.Using data from a 2010 survey in China's three large cities,Beijing,Shanghai and Shenzhen,this paper examines patterns and determinants of medical orientation of young migrants.By modeling multinomial Logistic regression,we find that demographic,economic and physiological factors have different influences on medical orientation of the young floating population,but all the influences are statistically significant.Education level and employment status have the biggest impact on medical orientation.Policy implications are discussed.