| Titre : | The shape of things to come ? Obesity prevalence among foreign-born vs. US-born Mexican youth in California. (2013) |
| Auteurs : | BUTTENHEIM (Alison-M) : USA. Department of Family and Community Health. School of Nursing. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. PA. ; Chang-Y CHUNG ; Noreen GOLDMAN ; HSIH (Katie) : USA. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Baltimore. MD. ; PEBLEY (Anne-R) : USA. Department of Community Health Sciences. University of California. Los Angeles School of Public Health. ; Office of Population Research. Princeton University. USA |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 78, 2013) |
| Pagination : | 1-8 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Obésité ; Prévalence ; Etude comparée ; Mexique ; Adolescent ; Enfant ; Ethnie ; Migrant ; Population ; Amérique ; Homme ; Amérique du Nord ; Amérique centrale |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS nsR0xrop. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Obesity among the Mexican-origin adult population in the US has been associated with longer stays in the US and with being US-vs. Mexican-born, two proxies for acculturation. This pattern is less clear for Mexican-origin children and young adults : recent evidence suggests that it may be reversed, with foreign-born Mexican youth in the US at higher risk of obesity than their US-born Mexican-American counterparts. The objective of this study is to evaluate the hypothesis that the immigrant advantage in obesity prevalence for Mexican-origin populations in the US does not hold for children and young adults. We use data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (N=1143) and the California Health Interview Survey (N=25,487) for respondents ages 4-24 to calculate the odds of overweight/obesity by ethnicity and nativity. We find support for the hypothesis that overweight/obesity prevalence is not significantly lower for first-generation compared to second-and third-generation Mexican-origin youth. Significantly higher obesity prevalence among the first generation was observed for young adult males (ages 18-24) and adolescent females (ages 12-17). The previously-observed protective effect against obesity risk among recent adult immigrants does not hold for Mexican-origin youth. |
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