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Towards understanding the new food environment for refugees from the Horn of Africa in Australia

Wilson, A., Renzaho, A. M. N., McCabe, M. and Swinburn, B. 2010, Towards understanding the new food environment for refugees from the Horn of Africa in Australia, Health & place, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 969-976.

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Title Towards understanding the new food environment for refugees from the Horn of Africa in Australia
Author(s) Wilson, A.
Renzaho, A. M. N.
McCabe, M.
Swinburn, B.
Journal name Health & place
Volume number 16
Issue number 5
Start page 969
End page 976
Publisher Elsevier
Place of publication Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Publication date 2010-09
ISSN 1353-8292
1873-2054
Keyword(s) African refugees
intergenerational
food supply
food attitudes
nutrition information
Summary The study explored how African migrant communities living in North-West Melbourne, Australia, conceptualise and interpret the Australian food system from an intergenerational perspective and how this impacts on their attitudes and beliefs about food in Australia. Using a qualitative approach that involved 15 adolescents and 25 parents, the study found significant intergenerational differences in four themes that characterised their new food environment: (1) an abundance of cheap and readily available processed and packaged foods, (2) nutrition messages that are complex to gauge due to poor literacy levels, (3) promotion of a slim body size, which contradicts pre-existing cultural values surrounding body shapes and (4) Australian food perceived as being full of harmful chemicals. In order to develop effective culturally competent obesity prevention interventions in this sub-population, a multigenerational approach is needed.
Language eng
Field of Research 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective 920411 Nutrition
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2010, Elsevier Ltd.
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30029525

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