Characterising urban immigrants’ interactions with the food retail environment
| Autor: | Yan Li, Susan Kum, Stella S. Yi, Bian Liu, Pasquale E. Rummo, Rienna Russo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Population Ethnic group Psychological intervention Emigrants and Immigrants Medicine (miscellaneous) Article Food Supply 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Humans Mainstream 030212 general & internal medicine Socioeconomics education media_common Chinese americans education.field_of_study 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Metropolitan area Cross-Sectional Studies Geography Food Survey data collection New York City |
| Zdroj: | Public Health Nutr |
| ISSN: | 1475-2727 1368-9800 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1368980020002682 |
| Popis: | Objective:The food retail environment is an important determinant of food access and the ability to achieve a healthy diet. However, immigrant communities may procure their food in different ways than the mainstream population owing to preferences for specific cultural products or limited English language proficiency. The objective of this analysis was to describe the grocery shopping patterns and behaviours of one of the largest immigrant groups in New York City, Chinese Americans – a group experiencing high poverty and cardio-metabolic disparities.Design:Cross-sectional survey data.Setting:Community-based sample.Participants:Self-identified Chinese Americans in the New York metropolitan area (n 239).Results:Three shopping patterns were identified: type 1: shopped weekly at an ethnic grocery store – and nowhere else; type 2: shopped weekly at a non-ethnic grocery store, with occasional shopping at an ethnic store and type 3: did not perform weekly shopping. Type 1 v. type 2 shoppers tended to have lower education levels (37·5 v. 78·0 % with college degree); to be on public insurance (57·6 v. 22·8 %); speak English less well (18·4 v. 41·4 %); be food insecure (47·2 v. 24·2 %; P < 0·01 for all) and to travel nearly two miles further to shop at their primary grocery store (β = −1·55; 95 % CI −2·81, −0·30).Discussion:There are distinct grocery shopping patterns amongst urban-dwelling Chinese Americans corresponding to demographic and sociocultural factors that may help inform health interventions in this understudied group. Similar patterns may exist among other immigrant groups, lending preliminary support for an alternative conceptualisation of how immigrant communities interact with the food retail environment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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