Maintenance of traditional cultural orientation is associated with lower rates of obesity and sedentary behaviours among African migrant children to Australia | Zendy

André M. N. Renzaho | Zendy; Boyd Swinburn | Zendy; Catherine M. Burns | Zendy

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Maintenance of traditional cultural orientation is associated with lower rates of obesity and sedentary behaviours among African migrant children to Australia

Author(s) -

André M. N. Renzaho,

Boyd Swinburn,

Catherine M. Burns

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

international journal of obesity

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.663

H-Index - 225

eISSN - 1476-5497

pISSN - 0307-0565

DOI - 10.1038/ijo.2008.2

Subject(s) - acculturation , obesity , overweight , body mass index , demography , medicine , gerontology , confounding , sedentary lifestyle , confidence interval , population , immigration , environmental health , geography , sociology , archaeology

Migrants from developing to developed countries rapidly develop more obesity than the host population. While the effects of socio-economic status on obesity are well established, the influence of cultural factors, including acculturation, is not known.

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