title: Factors associated with utilization of reproductive healthcare services among migrant women workers in Chong Qing, China.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the use of reproductive healthcare services among migrant women workers in Chong Qing, China, and provide suggestions to improve the utilization of these services by young women.
  
  
  METHODS
  In a qualitative interview-based study between March, 2013 and June, 2013, personal in-depth interviews were conducted among young women workers, factory doctors, healthcare service providers, and policy-makers in Chong Qing, China.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Women workers seldom visited hospitals and did so only when their pain became unbearable. The workers' use of reproductive healthcare services was particularly influenced by the high cost of hospitalization and long waiting periods. Factory doctors could only solve minor problems. Public healthcare providers stated that migrant women had a higher morbidity rate from reproductive tract infections as compared with local women. The policy-makers considered that the health system was beneficial to women's reproductive health; however, few workers had good comprehension of government policies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Migrant women workers are vulnerable owing to lack of reproductive health care. The government and both social and health enterprise should consider the convenience of these women and the affordability of treatments when formulating reproductive healthcare policies. Effective measures should be taken to improve the use of these services by migrant women workers.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health and Management, Chong Qing Medical University, Chong Qing, China.
authors.forename: Shu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Su
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health and Management, Chong Qing Medical University, Chong Qing, China.
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health and Management, Chong Qing Medical University, Chong Qing, China.
authors.forename: Qin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health and Management, Chong Qing Medical University, Chong Qing, China.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health and Management, Chong Qing Medical University, Chong Qing, China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health and Management, Chong Qing Medical University, Chong Qing, China. Electronic address: tangxiaoj0726@qq.com.
authors.forename: Xiaojun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D034121:Reproductive Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: China; Low-resource country; Migrant female workers; Reproductive health