Feng, Xiaoqi and Astell-Burt, Thomas and Kolt, Gregory S (2014) Is an index of co-occurring unhealthy lifestyles suitable for understanding migrant health? Preventive Medicine, 69, pp. 172-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.09.015.
This study investigated variation in unhealthy lifestyles within Australia according to where people were born.
Small differences in the co-occurrence of unhealthy lifestyles were observed by country of birth, ranging from 3.1 (Philippines) to 3.8 (Russia). More substantial variation was observed for each individual unhealthy lifestyle. Smoking and alcohol ranged from 7.3% and 4.2% (both China) to 28.5% (Lebanon) and 30.8% (Ireland) respectively. Non-adherence to physical activity guidelines was joint-highest among participants born in Japan and China (both 74.5%), but lowest among those born in Scandinavian countries (52.5%). Substantial variation in meeting national dietary guidelines was also evident between participants born in different countries.
The growing trend for constructing unhealthy lifestyle indices can hide important variation in individual unhealthy lifestyles by country of birth.
B Substances > Alcohol
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Health services, substance use research
MA-ML Social science, culture and community > Sociocultural discrimination > Minority group (racial / ethnic group, immigrant, Traveller)
R Research > Research outcome
R Research > Research and evaluation method
VA Geographic area > Europe > Ireland
VA Geographic area > Australia and Oceania > Australia
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