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ArticleAmerican anthropologist2017

Acculturation and health: the moderating role of socio-cultural context.

Molly Fox, Zaneta Thayer, Pathik D Wadhwa

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Article in American anthropologist, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

69 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  19. Brain Health Attitudes, Awareness and Actions in Middle-Aged Latinos.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Molly FoxDepartment of Anthropology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Zaneta ThayerDepartment of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
Pathik D WadhwaDepartment of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Health and Disease Research Program, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.

Funding

Research Training/ Education CoreP20MD006871 · NIMHD · WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BUCHWALD, DEDRA S, PAUL, ROBERTA LYNN · 2012 to 2016
$5.5M
Maternal Acculturation in Pregnancy and Infant Adiposity in Mexican AmericansR01MD010738 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI ENTRINGER, SONJA, WADHWA, PATHIK D · 2016 to 2020
$3.6M
EMA Assessment of Biobehavioral Processes in Human PregnancyR01HD060628 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI WADHWA, PATHIK D · 2010 to 2014
$3.4M
Effects of Acculturation on Gestational Biology in Mexican-American Pregnant WomenK01DK105110 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI FOX, MOLLY MAURER · 2015 to 2021
$782k
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD060628NIDDK NIH HHS K01 DK105110NIMHD NIH HHS P20 MD006871NIMHD NIH HHS R01 MD010738
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acculturation represents an important construct for elucidating the determinants and consequences of health disparities in minority populations. However, the processes and mechanisms underlying acculturation's effects on health are largely undetermined and warrant further study. We integrate concepts from anthropology and statistics to describe the role of sociocultural context as a putative modifier of the relationship between acculturation and health. Sociocultural context may influence the extent to which exposure to host culture leads to internalization of host cultural orientation, and may influence the extent to which acculturation leads to stress and adoption of unhealthy behaviors. We focus on specific aspects of sociocultural context: (1) neighborhood ethno-cultural composition; (2) discrimination; (3) discrepancy between origin and host environments; (4) discrepancy between heritage and host cultures; (5) origin group, host group, and individual attitudes towards assimilation; (6) variation in targets of assimilation within host community; (7) public policy and resources; (8) migration selection bias. We review and synthesize evidence for these moderation effects among first- and later-generation immigrants, refugees, and indigenous populations. Furthermore, we propose best-practices data-collection and statistical-analysis methods for this purpose, in order to improve our understanding of the complex, multilevel aspects of the relationship between acculturation and health.

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acculturationeffect moderationhealth disparitiesminority healthsociocultural contextstatistical interaction

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PMID28966344
PMCPMC5617140

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