CommentHealth research: what's culture got to do with it?
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2017, Social Science and MedicineCitation Excerpt :Nguyen et al. (2015) attributed the unexplained gap in health coverage to immigrants’ cultural capital, which includes values, norms, and information resources available in the ethnic community. As Nguyen et al. (2015) noted, studies have pinpointed culture as an underlying factor affecting health disparities among racial, ethnic, and cultural groups, particularly when the observed disparities are not explained by demographic and socioeconomic attributes (Fiscella and Sanders, 2016; Hunt, 2005). Although culture as a concept can be rather nebulous depending on its use, researchers have conceptualized it as a set of norms, beliefs, and customs that influences health-related behaviors (Salant and Lauderdale, 2003; Viruell-Fuentes, 2007).
Ecological risk model of childhood obesity in Chinese immigrant children
2015, AppetiteCitation Excerpt :Moreover, even though the focus of the present review is on risk factors, it is important to focus future efforts on identifying protective factors in Chinese immigrant families when seeking solutions to childhood obesity. Second, researchers should consider the role of culture seriously in health research (Dressler, 2006; Hunt, 2005). Instead of focusing on general markers of ethnic or cultural groups, researchers and health practitioners should be more explicit about where culture is situated in the ecological context for Chinese immigrant children.
Cultural humility: Essential foundation for clinical researchers
2013, Applied Nursing ResearchCitation Excerpt :It is problematic when researchers use cultural and racial stereotypes based on someone’s ethnic identity or national origin to explain study findings. For example, researchers have explained their study findings by saying that the reason foreign-born Mexican Americans had less mental illness compared to U.S. born Mexican Americans was due to (the researcher’s belief that) Mexican families being close knit; no measure of family structure or quality was included in the study measures (Grant et al., 2004; Hunt, 2005). Using cultural stereotypes in this way disregards the heterogeneity of groups and wrongly assumes that cultural beliefs and behaviors always go along with ethnic identity.
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