Cunningham Solveig A, Vandenheede Hadewijch, Jones-Antwi Rebecca
Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands.
J Migr Health. 2024 Dec 27;11:100288. doi: 10.1016/j.jmh.2024.100288. eCollection 2025.
Immigrants' health may differ with the characteristics of the place they resettle. We examined eating patterns and weight status across two differing environments - Atlanta, United States and Brussels, Belgium - collecting information on diet and health from a diverse sample of 111 refugees, asylum-seekers and other migrants. Analyses used descriptive statistics, multivariate regressions, and text analysis. People who had resettled in Atlanta reported higher weight categories than those in Belgium. In both locations, the most commonly adopted items were processed foods (71 % in Atlanta, 45 % in Brussels); many also listed adopting fruits and vegetables (31 % in Atlanta, 14 % in Brussels). Thus, changes in health-related behaviors after migration included both healthy and unhealthy components of the contexts of reception. Longer time since arrival was associated with lower odds of having adopted processed foods and higher odds of having adopted fresh foods, suggesting that dietary change is nuanced with immigrants' integration trajectories.
移民的健康状况可能因他们重新定居的地方的特征而有所不同。我们在两个不同的环境——美国亚特兰大市和比利时布鲁塞尔市——研究了饮食模式和体重状况，从111名难民、寻求庇护者和其他移民的多样化样本中收集了饮食和健康方面的信息。分析采用了描述性统计、多元回归和文本分析。在亚特兰大重新定居的人报告的体重类别高于比利时的人。在这两个地方，最常采用的食物是加工食品（亚特兰大占71%，布鲁塞尔占45%）；许多人还列出了采用水果和蔬菜的情况（亚特兰大占31%，布鲁塞尔占14%）。因此，移民后与健康相关行为的变化包括接纳环境中的健康和不健康成分。抵达时间越长，采用加工食品的几率越低，采用新鲜食品的几率越高，这表明饮食变化与移民的融入轨迹密切相关。
