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Lin et al. International Journal for Equity in Health (2017) 16:139 DOI 10.1186/s12939-017-0640-9
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The social income inequality, social integration and health status of internal migrants in China Yanwei Lin1,2,3, Qi Zhang2,4, Wen Chen1,2 and Li Ling1,2,5*
Abstract Background: To examine the interaction between social income inequality, social integration, and health status among internal migrants (IMs) who migrate between regions in China. Methods: We used the data from the 2014 Internal Migrant Dynamic Monitoring Survey in China, which sampled 15,999 IMs in eight cities in China. The Gini coefficient at the city level was calculated to measure social income inequality and was categorized into low (0.2 < Gini
