Corporate Health Of Migrant Workers: The Social Impact Factors And Social Support

Being the crucial part of the migrant rural workers, the industry migrant rural workers are the very group most likely to settle down in the city proper for their proficiency in a particular line. Compared with their urban counterparts, the health of both their bodies and minds, however, is greatly influenced by the pressures in the working environments and the decisive social factors in life, so much so that their health is in a worrying situation. If a profound analysis of decisive social factors about their health is carried out to construct a social supporting network to maintain their health, which enables them to have fundamental feasible capacities, it will be favorable for them easier and sooner to accustom themselves to the urban life and better to keep the harmony and stability of the urban society and has a far-reaching significance for the social development on the large.The previous achievements of studies about the migrant rural workers deal mainly with the details such as the industrial injuries and occupational diseases, etc. The author, however, chooses the migrant rural workers in a middle Sino-foreign processing and manufacturing joint venture as the subject to probe into their living and working conditions and detects the major problems in their social health and the leading social factors negatively affecting their health from the perspective of sociology, and points out that through various social supports they can be in their most appropriate status of body, mind and social relations, etc. when they work.The industry migrant rural workers are typically characteristic of being younger and poor-educated, which makes their social health state deteriorating. Concretely speaking, they work longer and intensely, eat unhealthily and live poorly, lack in health common sense and education, and they are not sanguine about their medical care and full of intense feelings of loneliness and hopelessness being far from their hometowns, are feeling perplexed by the uncertainties of their future, worried about their working conditions without other choices, and their psychological health conditions are worsening on the increase, the traditional social relations are losing their expected role while the modern social tie networks does not tend to construct, so that their social relationship is increasingly marginalized.On carefully sorting out the materials, the author finds five fundamental elements decisively affecting the health of the industry migrant rural workers such as educational degree, social integration in the society transformation, social equality, social capital and social security networks. On this basis, the author puts forward the supporting methods as how to establish the social supporting platform for the health of the industry migrant rural workers, including forming good living habits and styles and bettering their living conditions, providing reasonable occupational protection and health management and promoting their gradual socialization, establishing an efficient medical care system for them, eliminating the systemized shackles and rendering them social equality, enriching their sparetime life, enhancing the ownership of the industry and proving various officially organized social helps, thus ensuring to realizing their various demands and resorts and having access to good health while helping them to get occupational status in their industries.