Analysis on the self-rated health of urban new immigrants and its influencing factors

Objective To understand the health status of self-rated health of urban new immigrants and its influencing factors, so as to provide evidence for enhancing the health status of urban new immigrants. Methods The chi-square test was used to compare the differences in demographic characteristics, lifestyles and health status among urban new immigrants in different self-rated health status. The ordinal Logistic regression was used to determine the influencing factors of urban new immigrant self-assessment health. Results A total of 3 247(71.8%) of urban new immigrants evaluated their health status as good, 1 092(24.2%) as general and 181(4.0%) as poor. Multi-factor analysis showed that urban new immigrants aged 18-, 30-, and 60-years old had better self-rated health than those aged 70 years and older; comparing with urban new immigrants with the academics, those with junior high school, high school and above had better self-rated health; urban new immigrants with no work or retirees had self-worse self-rated health; urban new immigrants who had no two weeks of illness, no chronic disease, no one-year hospitalization and no depression had better self-rated health; those who did not drink alcohol and drink occasionally had worse self-rated than those who drunk regularly; those who slept less than 6 hours had worse self-rated health than those who slept 9 hours and over. Conclusion More attention should be paid to the urban new immigrants who are the elderly, unemployed or retired, with high cultural level to promote the health of the urban new immigrants.