African youth and obesity: The role of the intergenerational acculturation gap

如果考虑到个人承担的成本，澳大利亚社区因肥胖而付出的经济代价估计为219亿美元。了解和解决减轻健康不平等和减少肥胖症的因素将有助于减轻疾病负担和更健康地老龄化人口。我们的研究将首次应用文化适应理论来研究家庭环境和家庭动态，这些家庭环境和家庭动态使来自增长最快的移民人口之一的非洲人的青少年容易患上肥胖症，并产生具有文化能力和经过测试的模型，为大规模、人口层面的肥胖症预防计划和政策提供信息。

The financial cost of obesity to the Australian community is estimated to be $21.9 billion when the costs borne by individuals are taken into account. Understanding and addressing factors that extenuate health inequalities and reduce obesity will lead to a reduction in the burden of diseases and healthier ageing population. Our study will be the first to apply acculturation theories to examine the family environment and family dynamics that predispose adolescents from one of the fastest growing immigrant populations, Africans, to obesity, and to produce culturally competent and tested models to inform large scale, population-level obesity prevention programs and policies.