Open AccessThe Interaction Between an Individual’s Acculturation and Community Factors on Physical Inactivity and Obesity: A Multilevel Analysis
Author(s) -
Lu Shi,
Donglan Zhang,
Jeroen van Meijgaard,
Kara E. MacLeod,
Jonathan E. Fielding
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2014.302541
Subject(s) - acculturation , respondent , overweight , community health , gerontology , odds , obesity , demography , odds ratio , household income , public health , multilevel model , confidence interval , immigration , psychology , logistic regression , medicine , environmental health , geography , sociology , nursing , archaeology , pathology , machine learning , political science , computer science , law
We examined whether the interactions between primarily speaking English at home and community-level measures (median household income and immigrant composition) are associated with physical inactivity and obesity.