The relationship between internal migration and the likelihood of high-risk pregnancy: Hukou system and high-risk pregnancies in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

China has one of the world's largest internal migrant populations. The Chinese Hukou system is a unique household registration system that limits internal migrants in their access to basic urban public services, such as public health insurance and social assistance of their host city. In the case of female internal migrants, this may lead to high-risk pregnancies. The objective of this study is to assess the relationship between internal migrant status (Hukou) and the likelihood of high-risk pregnancies that occur in one large municipal-level obstetrics hospital in Shanghai, China.

Methods

Medical records data from the Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital from January 1, 2013, to May 31, 2018, were used to analyze 133,358 live births for Shanghai natives (

SUBMITTER: Tang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8283949 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature