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.
This paper attempts to estimate how many births were averted in China by the family planning policy.Using country-level data from World Population Data Sheet from 1980 to 2008,regression models are constructed between economic,social and demographic variables from more than 140 countries without any family planning policy,total fertility rate(TFR) being the predicted variable.Different population trends are generated from population projections using estimated and actual TFR.Regression analysis yields a predicted TFR of about 2.5 in China in 2008 under the condition of no family planning policy.There were 458 million births were averted in China between 1972 and 2008 by the family planning policy,excluding the impact of economic and social development.
