Andreeva Valentina A, Unger Jennifer B
1] Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA [2] Nutritional Epidemiology Research Group, University of Paris XIII, Bobigny, France.
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
J Public Health Policy. 2014 Aug;35(3):278-91. doi: 10.1057/jphp.2014.9. Epub 2014 Apr 3.
The unprecedented ethnocultural diversity in the United States and other Western countries likely changes the social norms for various health practices in the host populations, thus impacting prevalence of such practices and leading to the need for modification of public health policies. However, application of host acculturation (HA) principles in the public health domain remains underdeveloped. We conducted a narrative review of theoretical and empirical information about the association between HA and health practices or outcomes, drawing on evidence from health-care services, complementary and alternative medicine, diet, smoking, alcohol use, and psychological well-being. Given the experience of different countries with large immigrant populations, future multidisciplinary studies are needed both to supply additional empirical evidence and to identify ubiquitous HA processes, and thus inform public health promotion initiatives in the United States and worldwide.
美国和其他西方国家前所未有的种族文化多样性可能会改变宿主人群各种健康行为的社会规范，从而影响这些行为的流行率，并导致需要修改公共卫生政策。然而，宿主文化适应（HA）原则在公共卫生领域的应用仍不发达。我们对关于HA与健康行为或结果之间关联的理论和实证信息进行了叙述性综述，借鉴了来自医疗保健服务、补充和替代医学、饮食、吸烟、饮酒以及心理健康方面的证据。鉴于不同国家拥有大量移民人口的经验，未来需要开展多学科研究，以提供更多实证证据并确定普遍存在的HA过程，从而为美国乃至全球的公共卫生促进举措提供参考。
