Acculturation, physical activity, and obesity among Hispanic adolescents

Abstract

Findings suggest that future public health interventions that aim to increasing physical activity among Hispanic adolescents should be tailored based on generational status and English-language use.

Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health

“…Critical public health approaches propose a broad range of overlapping concepts for understanding and responding to the effects of social inequality: These include social epidemiology (37,43,105), the eco-social or socio-environmental perspective (23,24,65,67,115,129), eco-epidemiology (128), and the risk environment framework (114,113,125). They call for a focus on social inequalities through concepts such as fundamental social causes (73)(74)(75)103), social stratification (78), social determinants of health inequality (63,76,78,80,125), income inequality (63), webs of causation (65), higher-order causal-level structural factors (87), upstream factors (86), discrimination, and racial disparities in health outcomes (42,66,71,79,123,144). Drawing from the social sciences, frameworks have incorporated concepts related to the importance of social structures and social inequalities, such as political economy and political and economic determinants (94,95,121), structural violence (41), symbolic violence (19,21,54), structural vulnerability (29,54,111), conjugated oppression and hierarchies of embodied suffering (20,52), zones of abandonment (16), intersectio...…”

“…The cultural framework is used in relation to topics and outcomes such as acculturation (e.g., 31,76,132,145), mental health (e.g., 9, 33), chronic disease (11,38,122), health care access (e.g., 31), maternal and child health (26,104,145), substance use (132), physical activity and obesity (76), and social capital (3,15,14). Most outcomes within this framework are captured as individuallevel behaviors.…”

Fruit and vegetable consumption among migrants in Switzerland

“…Migrants are an important group and prevention campaigns may need to be tailored to specific migrant groups and their needs. A large body of literature on migration and health suggests that cultural patterns shape physical activity, body images, dietary intake and food preferences (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24) . However, the evidence on dietary patterns is mixed (25) .…”

Risk of overweight and obesity among migrants in Switzerland

“…While cultural patterns shape physical activity, body images, dietary intake and food preferences [18][19][20][21][22][23][24] the influence of these cultural pattern may fade over time. Several studies show that migrants often adopt the dietary practices of the host country [30][31][32][33].…”

“…A large body of literature on migration and health suggests that cultural patterns shape physical activity, body images, dietary intake and food preferences [18][19][20][21][22][23][24] and therefore may be associated with weight status. Several studies find that migrants have a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity [11,14,16,25,26], other studies come to the opposite conclusion [8,27].…”