Titre :
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The shape of things to come ? Obesity prevalence among foreign-born vs. US-born Mexican youth in California. (2013)
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Auteurs :
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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
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Social science and medicine (vol. 78, 2013)
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Pagination :
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1-8
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Obésité
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Prévalence
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Etude comparée
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Mexique
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Adolescent
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Enfant
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Ethnie
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Migrant
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Population
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Amérique
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Homme
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Amérique du Nord
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Amérique centrale
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Résumé :
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[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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