Durational and generational differences in Mexican immigrant obesity: Is acculturation the explanation?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 300-310

  Creighton, Mathew J ^a   Goldman, Noreen ^b   Pebley, Anne R ^c   Chung, Chang Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Diet; Exercise; Health; Immigration; Mexican; Obesity; USA

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; DIET; HEALTH RISK; IMMIGRATION; LATINO PEOPLE; OBESITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIET; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICAN; NEGRO; OBESITY; RACE; SOCIAL STATUS;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; DIET; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861335718     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.03.013     Document Type: Article

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