Housing Conditions, Neighborhood Physical Environment, and Secondhand Smoke Exposure at Home: Evidence from Chinese Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers

Chenghan Xiao, Yang Yang, Xiaohe Xu and Xiao Ma
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Chenghan Xiao: West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
Yang Yang: West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
Xiaohe Xu: School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Xiao Ma: West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 8, 1-13

Abstract: Over the past two decades, health-related issues among rural-to-urban migrant workers in China have been widely discussed and documented by public health scholars. However, little, if any, scholarly attention has been paid to migrant workers’ secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure at home. This study aims to explore the contours of SHS exposure at home and investigate the effects of inadequate housing conditions and poor neighborhood physical environments on such in-home exposure among Chinese migrant workers. A respondent-driven sampling method was employed to interview 1854 rural-to-urban migrant workers from the period June 2017 to June 2018 in Chengdu, China. The results indicate that Chinese migrant workers are at high risk of SHS exposure at home. Migrant workers who live in homes with inadequate conditions, such as substandard housing and crowdedness, are especially at high risk of SHS exposure at home. Moreover, poor neighborhood physical environments are significantly and positively associated with SHS exposure at home. These findings suggest that strategies that can help improve housing conditions and neighborhood physical environments should be developed and promoted to protect rural-to-urban migrant workers from SHS exposure at home.

Keywords: secondhand smoke; rural-to-urban migrant workers; housing conditions; neighborhood physical environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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