Abstract
The concept of universal health accessibility equips every individual, family, and community with knowledge, thus enabling them to take positive action and make sound health choices. Mere availability of opportunities does not solve the problem of lacking health care. Social positioning in society (class status) determines health choices, thus making it problematic for unskilled workers belonging to the migrant category to access better choices for health care. Resilient social resources determine the health knowledge, attitude, and practices of the population. Migrants from similar cultural backgrounds as natives of the city face more of barriers to accessing health services. Knowledge is lacking regarding migrants’ health beliefs and access to health information. Henceforth, the present study attempts to explore social-resources resilience among manual migrant workers at the place of destination as well as the hindrances they face while trying to obtain these social resources .
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsNotes
- 1.
Intimate connectivity and relative connectivity are the other two types of social connectivity that human beings possess, and they can affect an individual’s health -seeking behaviour.
References
Anderson B, Sharma N, Wright C (2009) Editorial: why no borders? Refuge 26(2):5–18
Bercow J (2008) A review of services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs. DCSF Publication, Nottingham
Bergger P, Luuckmann T (1966) The social construction of reality: atreatise in the sociology of knowledge. Penguin, UK
Bidddle N, Kennedy N, Mcdonal SJ (2007) Health assimilation patterns amongst Austrialian immigrants. Econ Record 83:16–30
Bryan K (2009) Communication in Health care. Peter Lang international Academic Publication, Bern
Cacoippo J, Cacoippo S (2013) Social relationships and health: the toxic effect of perceived social isolation. Soc Pers Psychol Compass 8(2):58–72
Chanderkanta (2017) Social network as a survival strategy for migrant women construction workets in Delhi. In: Rajput PS (ed) Sustainable smart cities in India challenges and future perspectives. Springer, New Delhi
Courtright C (2005) Health information seeking among latino newcomers: sn exploratory study. Inf Res Int Electronic J 10(2):0001
Derose P, Escarce J, Lurie N (2007) Immigrants and health care: sources of vulnerability. Health Aff (Millwood) 26(5):1258–1268
Easterby-Smith M, Crossan M, Nicolini D (2000) Organizational learning: debates past, present and future. J Manage Stud 37(6):783–796
Fennelly K, Ferderico C (2008) Rural Residence as a determinant of Attitude towards US Immigration Policy. Int Migr 46(1):151–190
Hausman DN (2006) Valuing Health. Philos Public Aff 34(3):246–274
Healy J, McKee M (2004) Accessing healthcare: responding to diversity. Oxford University Press
Hellier W (2000) Primary health care for Hispanic children of migrant farm workers. J Pediatr Health Care 14
Kleinnmen A (1980) Patients and Healers in context of culture: an exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine and psychiatry. University of California Press, California
Kumar A (2011) Vulnerability of migrants and responsiveness of the state: the case of unskilled migrant workers in Kerala, India. Centre for Soci-Economic and Environmental Studies, Kochin
Kusuma S (2010) Migration and immunization: determinants of childhood immunization uptake among socioeconomically disadvantaged migrants in Delhi India. Tropical Medicine Int Health 15(11):1326–1332
Lee C, Choi J, Cho Y. (2012) Context modulation of facial emotion perception differed by indiviual difference. PLOS one 7(3)
McHugh M, Stimpfel A (2012) Nursing reported quality of care: a measuring of hospital quality. Res Nurs Health 35(6):566–575
Scrivens. (2004). Quality and control in health care. Open University Press, UK
Shaheen A (2015) Health problem and treatment behaviour among migrant construction workers in Delhi. Int J Res Econ Social Sci 5(8):203–215
Smith EJ (2006) The strength-based counseling model. Counse Psycholo 34:13–79
Wang H, Zhang L, Yip W (2006) Adverse selection in a voluntary rural mutual health care health insurance scheme in China. Soc Sci Med 63(5):1236–1245
WHO (2003) International Migration, Health & Human Rights. World Health Organisation, Geneva
Wilkins K (2000) Redeveloping communication for social change: theory, practice and power. Rowman & littlefield, USA
Wong D, Song H (2016) Resilience of migrant workers in Shanghaib China the role of migration stress and meaning of migration. Int J Soc Psychiatry 54(2):131–143
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Shaheen, A. (2019). Social Resources Meeting the Health-Services Requirement Amongst Migrant Manual Workers in Patna. In: Sharma, V., Chandrakanta (eds) Making Cities Resilient. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94932-1_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94932-1_13
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-94931-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-94932-1
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)