The Impact of Public Health Education on Migrant Workers’ Medical Service Utilization

Deshui Zhou, Lanyan Cheng and Hainan Wu ()
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Deshui Zhou: School of Finance and Public Administration, Anhui University of Finance & Economics, Bengbu 233030, China
Lanyan Cheng: School of Finance and Public Administration, Anhui University of Finance & Economics, Bengbu 233030, China
Hainan Wu: School of Finance and Public Administration, Anhui University of Finance & Economics, Bengbu 233030, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 23, 1-15

Abstract: Based on the dynamic monitoring survey data of China’s migrant population (CMDS) in 2017, this study analyzes the impact of public health education on migrant workers’ medical service utilization. The study found that public health education can significantly promote the utilization of migrant workers’ medical services and has a greater effect on the older generation groups, those who received secondary and higher education, and those working in first-tier cities. By distinguishing different types of public health education, it is found that smoking control education has the most obvious effect. Further differentiating disease types, the study found that the promotion effect of receiving occupational disease education is the highest, while the effect of receiving STD/AIDS education is relatively low. The mechanism test indicates that public health education has significantly improved migrant workers’ utilization of medical services by influencing their health literacy, social network, and psychological integration.

Keywords: public health education; medical service utilization; migrant worker (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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