Passage to Canada: How Social Determinants Affect Healthy Eating and Weight Among Immigrants

Principal Investigator
Helen Vallianatos

Co-Investigators
Kim Raine

Project Overview
Passage to Canada: How Social Determinants Affect Healthy Eating and Weight Among Immigrants is assessing how the migration experience and degree of acculturation affect conceptions of food, body size, and body image in South Asian, Arabic and Latin American immigrant communities. Data collection procedures include anthropometrics and questionnaires (demographics, body image and acculturation) administered during focus groups, and in-depth interviews

Time Frame
2005-2008

Funding Agencies
New Emerging Team grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism, and Diabetes and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada