Culturally based health assumptions in Sub-Saharan African immigrants: Body mass index predicting self-reported health status

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Journal of Health Psychology

• Publication date

  2019-05-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1177/1359105316683241PMID 28810367
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Understanding the healthcare experiences and needs of African immigrants in the United States: a scoping review

  2019cited by this paper
• Sociocultural pressure, internalization, BMI, exercise, and body dissatisfaction in Korean female college students

  2017cited by this paper
• “When you are here, you have high blood pressure”: Liberian refugees’ health and access to healthcare in Staten Island, NY

  2016cited by this paper
• Body image perception of African immigrants in Europe

  2016cited by this paper
• Homeostatic theory of obesity

  2015cited by this paper
• Fat, Fiber and Cancer Risk in African Americans and Rural Africans

  2015cited by this paper
• The Healthy Migrant Families Initiative: development of a culturally competent obesity prevention intervention for African migrants

  2015cited by this paper
• Worse Cardiometabolic Health in African Immigrant Men than African American Men: Reconsideration of the Healthy Immigrant Effect

  2014cited by this paper
• Consequences of Abdominal Adiposity within the Metabolic Syndrome Paradigm in Black People of African Ancestry

  2014cited by this paper
• Acculturation determines BMI percentile and noncore food intake in Hispanic children.

  2014cited by this paper
• Greater dietary acculturation (dietary change) is associated with poorer current self-rated health among African immigrant adults.

  2014cited by this paper
• Ethnic identity, thin-ideal internalization, and eating pathology in ethnically diverse college women.

  2014cited by this paper
• Disordered eating behavior and body weight and shape relatives’ criticism in overweight and obese 15- to 19-year-old females

  2013cited by this paper
• Can cognitive dissonance methods developed in the West for combatting the ‘thin ideal’ help slow the rapidly increasing prevalence of eating disorders in non-Western cultures?

  2013cited by this paper
• Ethnic-immigrant disparities in total and abdominal obesity in the US.

  2013cited by this paper
• The Relationship of Language Acculturation (English Proficiency) to Current Self-Rated Health Among African Immigrant Adults

  2013cited by this paper
• Change in Self-Reported Health Status among Immigrants in the United States: Associations with Measures of Acculturation

  2013cited by this paper
• Body fat is differentially related to body mass index in U.S.‐born African‐American and East African immigrant girls

  2011cited by this paper
• African Immigrant Health

  2011cited by this paper
• Ethnic differences in discrepancies between self-reported and measured weight, height and body mass index.

  2011cited by this paper
• Health Status, Use of Health Care Resources, and Treatment Strategies of Ethiopian and Nigerian Immigrants in the United States

  2011cited by this paper
• Ethnic differences in maternal underestimation of offspring's weight: the ABCD study

  2011cited by this paper
• Findings on dietary patterns in different groups of African origin undergoing nutrition transition.

  2010cited by this paper
• Migration and health in Italy: a multiethnic adult sample.

  2009cited by this paper
• Overweight and obesity among Ghanaian residents in The Netherlands: how do they weigh against their urban and rural counterparts in Ghana?

  2009cited by this paper
• Growth and malnutrition of rural Zimbabwean children (6-17 years of age).

  2008cited by this paper
• Female Body Dissatisfaction and Perceptions of the Attractive Female Body in Ghana, the Ukraine, and the United States

  2008cited by this paper
• The sociocultural model of eating disorder development: application to a Guatemalan sample.

  2008cited by this paper
• Maintenance of traditional cultural orientation is associated with lower rates of obesity and sedentary behaviours among African migrant children to Australia

  2008cited by this paper
• Age at Arrival and Risk of Obesity Among US Immigrants

  2008cited by this paper
• Immigration and generational trends in body mass index and obesity in the United States: results of the National Latino and Asian American Survey, 2002-2003.

  2008cited by this paper
• Dietary Assimilation and Health among Hispanic Immigrants to the United States∗

  2007cited by this paper
• Eating and Body Image Disturbances Across Cultures: A Review.

  2006cited by this paper
• Bone mineral density of recent African immigrants in the United States.

  2006cited by this paper
• A pilot study on body image, attractiveness and body size in Gambians living in an urban community

  2006cited by this paper
• Summary Objectives : To conduct an assessment of perceived dietary changes and problems by African asylum seekers , in order to develop appropriate nutritional education interventions

  2005cited by this paper
• Fat, rich and beautiful: changing socio-cultural paradigms associated with obesity risk, nutritional status and refugee children from sub-Saharan Africa.

  2004cited by this paper
• Thin-Ideal Internalization: Mounting Evidence for a New Risk Factor for Body-Image Disturbance and Eating Pathology

  2001cited by this paper
• Disordered eating in three communities of China: a comparative study of female high school students in hong kong, Shenzhen, and rural hunan.

  2000cited by this paper
• Some correlates of dieting behavior in Saudi schoolgirls.

  2000cited by this paper
• Preference for thinness in Singapore--a newly industrialised society.

  1999cited by this paper
• Preference for thinness in Singapore--a newly industrialised society.

  1999cited by this paper
• African Immigrants in the United States: The Challenge for Research and Practice

  1997cited by this paper

• Dietary Acculturation and the Nutritional Health and Well-Being of Sub-Saharan African Immigrants Living in Higher-Income Countries: A Scoping Review.

  2025cites this paper
• Factors Influencing the Acceptance or Rejection of Dietary and Body Norm Systems Favorable to the Prevention and Control of Type 2 Diabetes Among Sub-Saharan Africa migrants: A Scoping Review.

  2024cites this paper
• African Immigrant Health: The Health Promotion Beliefs of Zimbabwean Immigrants in the United States

  2021cites this paper
• Duration of United States Residence and Self-Reported Health Among African-Born Immigrant Adults

  2020cites this paper
• The influence of intersectional identities on the employment integration of Sub-Saharan African women immigrants in the U.S.

  2020cites this paper
• Associations Between Income, Acculturation, Country of Origin, and Type II Diabetes Among African Immigrants to Ontario, Canada

  2019influential citation
• Understanding the healthcare experiences and needs of African immigrants in the United States: a scoping review

  2019cites this paper
• Migration trends and dietary patterns in Sub-Saharan African adult immigrants: A comparative analysis of populations in France, the UK, and the USA

  2019cites this paper