The Food Marketing Environments of African Americans: Clinical and Public Health Implications
Start Date
27-6-2008 12:00 PM
End Date
27-6-2008 1:00 PM
Keywords:
Health Disparate, Minority and Vulnerable Populations, Healthcare Disparities, Black or African American, Clinical Trials as Topic, Public Health
Description
The behaviors that determine weight status are embedded in the core social and cultural processes and environments of day-to-day life. Identifying effective, sustainable solutions to obesity therefore requires an ecological model that is inclusive of relevant contextual variables. The African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN) has articulated an expanded paradigm to broaden the approach to obesity research with the objective of improving the ability to address obesity-related health disparities. The paradigm's focus is on African Americans, but it may have broader implications. It incorporates both community and researcher perspectives, drawing on and integrating insights. from an expanded set of knowledge domains to promote a deeper understanding of relevant contexts. To augment the traditional, biomedical focus on energy balance, the expanded paradigm includes insights from family sociology, literature, philosophy, transcultural psychology, marketing, economics, and studies of the built environment. This expanded paradigm, for which development is ongoing, poses new challenges for researchers who focus on obesity and obesity-related health disparities but also promises discovery of new directions that can lead to new solutions
Recommended Citation
Kumanyika, Shiriki K. Ph.D., M.P.H., "The Food Marketing Environments of African Americans: Clinical and Public Health Implications" (2008). Disparities in Health in America Workshop: Celebrating Scholar Entrepreneurs Working Towards Social Justice. 5.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/dhaw/2008/telehealthcommunications/5
Short Bio and Abstract
The Food Marketing Environments of African Americans: Clinical and Public Health Implications
The behaviors that determine weight status are embedded in the core social and cultural processes and environments of day-to-day life. Identifying effective, sustainable solutions to obesity therefore requires an ecological model that is inclusive of relevant contextual variables. The African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN) has articulated an expanded paradigm to broaden the approach to obesity research with the objective of improving the ability to address obesity-related health disparities. The paradigm's focus is on African Americans, but it may have broader implications. It incorporates both community and researcher perspectives, drawing on and integrating insights. from an expanded set of knowledge domains to promote a deeper understanding of relevant contexts. To augment the traditional, biomedical focus on energy balance, the expanded paradigm includes insights from family sociology, literature, philosophy, transcultural psychology, marketing, economics, and studies of the built environment. This expanded paradigm, for which development is ongoing, poses new challenges for researchers who focus on obesity and obesity-related health disparities but also promises discovery of new directions that can lead to new solutions
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