ABSTRACT
This chapter argues the health strategies adopted by individual rural migrants, who are unable to sustain livelihoods unless government policies are changed to recognise and respond to the situation of migrants. This chapter documents the work and living conditions, and examines health risks and health strategies of rural-to-urban migrants in Guangzhou's urban villages. Maternal health is provided mainly by government services and the research shows that migrant women are still systematically excluded from urban health screening and reproductive healthcare programmes. The health situation of migrant children in Guangdong Province is closely connected to the specific migration situation of their parents. The main health risks for rural migrants can be summarised as high levels of work-related death, injury and chronic illness, unhealthy and unsafe living conditions, and a high risk of disease infection. A part of the rural population based on the new cooperative medical scheme(NCMS) rural hukou status, migrants claims medical benefits at the rural locations.
