Children’s health and its related factors among women with interracial marriage in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Yi-Ying Hung, 洪宜盈
• Other Authors: Chao-Hsiun Tang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72932674609678566395

碩士 === 臺北醫學大學 === 醫務管理學系 === 93 === Title of Thesis: Children’s health and its related factors among interracial marriage women Author: Yi-Ying, Hung Thesis advised by: Chao-Hsiun, Tang (Ph. D.) One of every 10 pairs of newlyweds in Taiwan in 2003 was an interracial marriage. According to the Statistical Yearbook from the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China, of all the babies born in 2002, foreigh mothers (including mothers from the Mainland China) accounted for 13.2%. The purpose of this study is of twofold. First, to investigate the association between Taiwanese man's demographical and socioeconomic factors and his spouse’s original nationality. Second, to investigate the association between the demographical and socioeconomic factors of foreign immigrant women and their children’s health. This cross-sectional study employs a secondary data “The Survey on Living Status of immigrants women “ administered by the Ministry of Interior. Statistical methods employed included descriptive statistics, Chi-Square Test, logistic regression and multinomial logit model. The main findings from this study are summarized as follows. First, original nationality of spouse was associated with Taiwanese man’s age at marriage, education level, working state, health condition and social assistance status. Second, contrary to findings from previous studies, children’s health was not associated with mother’s original nationality, age at birth, and education level. In addition, children’s health was also associated with mother’s working statuse and length of stayin Taiwan. Furthermore, children’s health condition was associated with father’s working status and health condition. Study found that moderately illed Taiwanese menwere more likely to marry women from the Southeast Asian and seriously illed men were more likely to marry women from Mainland China. Father’s health status, in stead of mother’s original nationality, was significantly associated with children’s health status. Children of illed fathers are relatively apt to suffer from the developmental delays, disabilities and critical Illness. Keywords: interracial marriage, foreign immigrants, children’s health, socioeconomic status