Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005 Barcelona, Spain.
Soc Sci Med. 2011 Mar;72(5):685-93. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.12.006. Epub 2010 Dec 16.
The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to assess the link between migrant networks and becoming overweight or obese and 2) to explore the pathways by which migrant networks may contribute to the increasing overweight and obese population of children in Mexico. Using two waves of the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS), we find that children and adolescents (ages 3 to 15) living in households with migrant networks are at an increased risk of becoming overweight or obese over the period of observation, relative to their peers with no migrant networks. Sedentary behavior and household-level measures of economic wellbeing explain some of the association between networks and changes in weight status, but the role of extended networks remains significant. Community-level characteristics related to migration do not account for any of the observed relationship between household-level networks and becoming overweight or obese.
1）评估移民网络与超重或肥胖之间的联系；2）探讨移民网络可能导致墨西哥儿童超重和肥胖人口增加的途径。利用墨西哥家庭生活调查（MxFLS）的两波数据，我们发现，与没有移民网络的同龄人相比，在观察期间，居住在有移民网络家庭中的儿童和青少年（3 至 15 岁）超重或肥胖的风险增加。久坐行为和家庭层面的经济福祉衡量标准解释了网络与体重状况变化之间的部分关联，但扩展网络的作用仍然重要。与移民相关的社区层面特征并不能解释家庭层面网络与超重或肥胖之间的任何关系。
