The hukou system effectively prevents migrants from accessing healthcare in the urban setting and they usually are too far from their rural home to receive the healthcare they need.  Furthermore, their low income makes urban medical facilities unaffordable. Migrants also tend to struggle with different disease groups and health issues than their urban counterparts.  Migrants have more communicable diseases, such as acute respiratory infections, diarrhea, parasitic and sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis.  On every indicator of maternal and infant health, the migrant population fares worse than the urban population.  The outsider status of migrants in the city’s health-care system, lack of medical insurance, weak enforcement of occupational health and safety regulations, and little awareness of occupational risks contribute to this widespread problem. Improved access to proper emergency or preventive care can help this situation, but the solution goes beyond the health sector.