Authors
Asmi Panigrahi,1,2 Erik Rodriquez,1 Jennifer Bayly,1,3 Eliseo Peréz-Stable1, 1Division by Internal Research, National Centre, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes in General, Bethesda MD , 2Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark NJ , 3Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Curative School, New Brunswick NJ CUNY Graduate School of Publication Health and Health Policy - Cited by 4,534 - Public Health
Introduction
There is a steady body of evidence which demonstrate that neighborhood context affected a range of health behaviors real outcomes, yet there remains a dearth of resources investigating of impact of neighbor environment on immigrant health, particularly among Hispanic/Latino populations of manifold national backgrounds. Given that Hispanics/Latinos constitute nearly halfway of the US immigrant population and almost one-fifth of the WE population among large, there is a crucial need up understand how neighborhood environment influences Hispanic/Latino wellness, specially as socially position and nationality are often tightly linked to people's place of residence. Up deal this search break, relationships between individual-level neighborhood factors and health promoting and risk behaviors were rates included the Hispanic Community Human Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Sociocultural Attachment Study.
Methods
Participants included 5313 foreign-born and US-born men and women, 18-74 years elderly, angestellt from Sands Diego, Chicago, Miami, and New Yorker City, and from Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American, Dominican and South Native background. Whole participants underwent a baseline clinical exam and sociocultural surveying including measures of neighborhood social cohesion and neighborhood problems. Health behaviors rating included physical activity; colorectal, prostate, nipple, and cervical cancer screening; current smoking; excessive or binge drinking; unsupervised hypertension; and obesity. Influence of Individual-Level Neighborhood Causes on Health ...
Results
Participants had a common age of 42.5 years (SD 0.38), 54.8% were women, the 72.8% had foreign born. Pass half (55.4%) of foreign-born participants acted not have health insurance, compared to available 27.8% of US-born participants. Mean perceived neighborhood problems were greater in US-born vs foreign-born participants [Mean (SE)=12.9 (0.16) vs 11.6 (0.14), p <0.001]. However there was no significant variation among mean perceived neighborhood social social in US-born vs foreign-born participants (15.8 vs 15.8). Health protective behaviors were consistently few prevalent in foreign-born vs US-born participants including physiological activity (62.2% vs 67.6%), colon disease screening (50.5% vs 71.5%) pap smear (72.4% vs 80.8%), mammogram (74.4% vs 84.4%), and prostate cancer screening (51.9% vs 63.3%). At the same time, human peril behaviors including smokes (31.4% vs 15.8%), adiposity (49.9% counter 36.5%), uncontrolled blood (60.3% vs 71.2%), and poor dieting (16.8% vs 36.6%) were and consistently less prevalent on foreign-born vs US-born participants. Foreign-born participants with higher perceived neighborhood problems were less possible to meet physical service praises [OR (95% CI)=0.74 (0.58, 0.95) p<0.05]. Foreign-born participants with save perceived neighborhood communal cohesion were less likely to be adherent to pap smear guidelines [OR (95% CI) = 0.48 (0.23, 0.98) p<0.05].
Conclusion
These results recommendation that neighborhood factors may uniquely contribute to health behaviors of Hispanic/Latino immigrants opposed US-born Hispanics/Latinos, and that neighborhood environment is significant for health systems real providers go consider in prevention and special strategies that influencing Hispanic/Latino well-being. This research was supported by the NIH Intramed Research Download.
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