Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Elderly return migrants are failed migrants. Studies show lower education, living alone, depending on social security, and original place was metropolitan cities, and inter-province are characteristic of elderly return migrants. On the other hand, the elderly population, inter-province, and migration experience are negatively associated with health indicators. This study discusses differences in health status and disability between recent elderly return and non-return migrants in Indonesia, controlled by individual characteristic and regional area. METHODS: This study used an ordered logit model with sample data of 1916 elderly Indonesian migrants from Indonesian Intercensal Survey (SUPAS) 2015. RESULTS: Elderly return migrants were healthier compared to non-return migrant. Return migrants were negatively associated with health complaints, concentration difficulties, communication difficulties and unable to taking care their-self, but it is not significant to have emotional and physical difficulties (seeing, listening, walking/climbing stairs, and using hands/finger). Meanwhile, there were strong positive effects of age (75+years) and financial source (family transfer) on these dependent variables. Higher levels of education and destinations area (Sumatra and Java-Bali) were less likely to have health complaints. The elderly non-return migrants were less likely to be able taking care their-self which appropriate with their reason for moving (following family). DISCUSSION: Elderly health care policies could refer to migration patterns (non-return and returns migration), economic characteristics, and destination areas because they were critical objective factors to determine the health status of elderly migrants.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-83,
title = {Self-Rated Health and Disability Among Elderly Migrant: How Does It Differ Across Return and Non-Return Migrants?},
author = {Nur Amalia Ramadhania. Omas Bulan Samosir},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: Elderly return migrants are failed migrants. Studies show lower education, living alone, depending on social security, and original place was metropolitan cities, and inter-province are characteristic of elderly return migrants. On the other hand, the elderly population, inter-province, and migration experience are negatively associated with health indicators. This study discusses differences in health status and disability between recent elderly return and non-return migrants in Indonesia, controlled by individual characteristic and regional area. METHODS: This study used an ordered logit model with sample data of 1916 elderly Indonesian migrants from Indonesian Intercensal Survey (SUPAS) 2015. RESULTS: Elderly return migrants were healthier compared to non-return migrant. Return migrants were negatively associated with health complaints, concentration difficulties, communication difficulties and unable to taking care their-self, but it is not significant to have emotional and physical difficulties (seeing, listening, walking/climbing stairs, and using hands/finger). Meanwhile, there were strong positive effects of age (75+years) and financial source (family transfer) on these dependent variables. Higher levels of education and destinations area (Sumatra and Java-Bali) were less likely to have health complaints. The elderly non-return migrants were less likely to be able taking care their-self which appropriate with their reason for moving (following family). DISCUSSION: Elderly health care policies could refer to migration patterns (non-return and returns migration), economic characteristics, and destination areas because they were critical objective factors to determine the health status of elderly migrants.},
note = {Type: ORAL PRESENTATION; Organisation: Magister of Economics in Population and Employment, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia},
keywords = {disable, elderly migrant, health, return migrant},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}