The Weight of Being Unauthorized? Legal Status Variation in the Association between US Exposure and Obesity among Hispanic Immigrants in Los Angeles
| Autor: | Claire E. Altman, James D. Bachmeier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Legal status
medicine.medical_specialty 030505 public health Epidemiology business.industry Public health media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease Obesity 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Variation (linguistics) medicine 030212 general & internal medicine 0305 other medical science Association (psychology) business Body mass index Disadvantage Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 23:936-945 |
| ISSN: | 1557-1920 1557-1912 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10903-021-01210-x |
| Popis: | We examine whether exposure to the US, experienced under certain conditions of disadvantage, namely immigrant legal status, is associated with body weight. Using the pooled, cross-sectional 2001 and 2008 Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (LAFANS) (n = 2063), we examine whether body mass index (BMI) and obesity vary by Hispanic immigrants’ legal status and time exposure to the US. The increased risk of obesity associated with greater US exposure is more pronounced among unauthorized Hispanic immigrants compared to their legally resident coethnic peers, after adjusting for age and age-at-arrival. It is not only residing in the US that is associated with increases in body weight, but residing in the US as an unauthorized immigrant. Improved data and methods are needed to facilitate research of greater policy significance and a refined understanding of how health integration processes vary by legal status. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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