Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- About the authors
- Preface
- PART 1 Students in the global market
- PART 2 Security in the formal and public domain
- 5 Finances
- 6 Work
- 7 Housing
- 8 Health
- 9 Safety of the person
- 10 The immigration department
- PART 3 Security in the informal and private domain
- PART 4 Protection and empowerment
- References
- Index
8 - Health
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- About the authors
- Preface
- PART 1 Students in the global market
- PART 2 Security in the formal and public domain
- 5 Finances
- 6 Work
- 7 Housing
- 8 Health
- 9 Safety of the person
- 10 The immigration department
- PART 3 Security in the informal and private domain
- PART 4 Protection and empowerment
- References
- Index
Summary
I hate that we should go to hospital and wait… You wait a long time. In hospital you should be very patient to be a patient.
~ male, 31 years, PhD in computing, ChinaINTRODUCTION: BODY, MIND AND MONEY
Health is essential to life. Physical and mental wellbeing, the prevention and effective treatment of illness and injury, and the stable management of existing chronic conditions are favourable for all activities. For the World Health Organization, health is a ‘state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. In encompassing body and mind, wellbeing rests on self-determining agency, and depends on resources and money. Health has objective and subjective dimensions. Health is even more essential to study and living in a foreign country that calls on a high level of energy and resourcefulness. The financing, provision and use of health services are therefore vital to the human security of cross-border students.
International students experience health services differently to local students. As with all aspects of student security, health issues are complicated by mobility itself, by the attenuated flow of information prior to arrival, by language barriers and by cross-cultural relations. Most international students undergo major changes in their personal, social, academic and physical environments. These changes can affect their health.
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- International Student Security , pp. 174 - 203Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010