title: Illegal private clinics: ideal health services choices among rural-urban migrants in China?
abstract: The main purpose of this article is to explore the important issues and the role of illegal private clinics in health services access among rural-urban migrants in China. The function that illegal private clinics substantially play on the health among rural-urban migrants in China is rarely discussed in studies. A study on a migrant community in Beijing shows the disadvantaged status of health services choices and the constraints for access to health services among migrants. It argues that the existence of illegal private clinics provides a channel to migrants for medical services in the city and reflects the difficulties and high cost of providing medical services to migrants in urban public hospitals. Occasionally the illegal private clinics can cause danger to the health of migrants.
authors: a School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University , Nottingham , United Kingdom.
authors: Yan
authors: Y
authors: Li
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D012424:Rural Population; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D014505:Urban Population
keywords: China; Rural–urban migrants; health services access; illegal private clinics