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Characterizing Urban Immigrants’ Interactions with the Food Retail Environment
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7-2021
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Source: Public Health Nutr. 24(10):3009-3017
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Alternative Title:Public Health Nutr
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Description:Objective
The food retail environment is an important determinant of food access and the ability to achieve a healthy diet. However, immigrant communities may procure their food in different ways than the mainstream population owing to preferences for specific cultural products, or limited English language proficiency. The objective of this analysis was to describe the grocery shopping patterns and behaviors of one of the largest immigrant groups in New York City, Chinese Americans – a group experiencing high poverty and cardio-metabolic disparities.
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Cross-sectional survey data.
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Community-based sample.
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Self-identified Chinese Americans in the New York metropolitan area (n=239).
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Three shopping patterns were identified: Type 1: shopped weekly at an ethnic grocery store – and nowhere else; Type 2: shopped weekly at a non-ethnic grocery store, with occasional shopping at an ethnic store; and Type 3: did not perform weekly shopping. Type 1 vs. Type 2 shoppers tended to have lower education levels (37.5% vs. 78.0% with college degree); to be on public insurance (57.6% vs. 22.8%); speak English less well (18.4 vs. 41.4%); be food insecure (47.2% vs. 24.2%; p<0.01 for all) and, to travel nearly two miles further to shop at their primary grocery store (β=−1.55; 95% CI −2.81, −0.30).
Discussion
There are distinct grocery shopping patterns amongst urban-dwelling Chinese Americans corresponding to demographic and sociocultural factors that may help inform health interventions in this understudied group. Similar patterns may exist among other immigrant groups, lending preliminary support for an alternative conceptualization of how immigrant communities interact with the food retail environment.
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Pubmed ID:32895069
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC8565613
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Volume:24
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Issue:10
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