Navigating changing food environments – Transnational perspectives on dietary behaviours and implications for nutrition counselling

The Important Role of Binational Studies for Migration and Health Research: A Review of US‐Mexico Binational Studies and Design Considerations for Addressing Critical Issues in Migrant Health

“…Fifteen studies related to diabetes, lifestyle factors, nutrition, cardiovascular diseases, or obesity (Handley et al., ; Riosmena et al., ; Bostean, ; Guendelman et al., ; Díaz‐Apodaca et al., ; Díaz‐Apodaca et al., ; Vijayaraghavan et al., ; Canela‐Soler et al., ; Buttenheim et al., ; Guendelman et al., ; Rosas et al., ; Barquera et al., ; Ro and Fleischer, ;Vera‐Becerra et al., ; Morales et al., ).…”

“…Five of the studies focused on indigenous Mexican populations, involving three different populations from Mexican states of Oaxaca, with distinct languages (Triqui and Zapotecan); (Handley et al., ; Villalobos et al., ; Holmes, ) and Yucatan (Tunkás) (Salgado et al., ; Pinedo et al., ). This focus on indigenous populations in recent studies may reflect a surge in migration pressures within indigenous populations, for whom migration to the US has increased dramatically since the 1990s as a consequence of regional conflicts and environmental pressures (Pinedo et al., ).…”

“…This aligns with a social determinants view of migration and health, such as that described by Castañeda et al. (Castañeda et al., ), which maintains that “global patterns of morbidity and mortality follow inequities rooted in conditions produced and reproduced by political economy, such as social structures, policies, and institutions” (such as employment, housing and living conditions, access to food and social services, regional resource depletion and legal status) and that “as migration flows increase worldwide, the social determinants of health surround the many individuals who choose to leave or are forced to leave their homelands for survival, work, safety, and in some cases, an new home in another land .” On the other hand, binational studies have also identified the benefits of maintaining transnational ties, with frameworks suggesting resilience, for example, in the area of dietary resilience (Grieshop, ; Handley et al., ). Along with this growth in numbers of studies and broadened scope of health issues under investigation, there has also been new types of study design and methodologies in practice that warrants an appraisal of the binational health literature.…”

Rural Latino caregivers' beliefs and behaviors around their children's salt consumption

“…It may not have been a salient issue for this study population because the town is so dominantly Latino, and even though the average length of time in the U.S. was 17 years, acculturation to more general population norms is still very low because of its remote rural location and homogeneously Hispanic residents (Matias et al, 2013). Other literature shows that Mexican immigrants experience a tension between their food experiences growing up in Mexico, where they perceive food to be healthy, and food that is available within the context of their current environment and time availability (Handley et al, 2013). All of these issues warrant further exploration with respect to sodium intake in future studies.…”

Applying the COM-B model to creation of an IT-enabled health coaching and resource linkage program for low-income Latina moms with recent gestational diabetes: the STAR MAMA program

“…Data analysis to identify diabetes-relevant barriers and facilitators was based on qualitative data analysis methods described by Sandelowski and others [ 39 , 40 ], which we have used previously [ 41 ] in which general topic area prompts are used to orient qualitative data descriptions. In the analysis, we used the COM-B model and TDF to categorize barriers in terms of capability-, opportunity-, and motivation-related barriers or multiple barriers.…”