In the United States, one in every five children belonged to settlers during the year 2000. Nevertheless, the well-being and health characters of these great and drastically growing people continued to be understudied. Investigation on settler adolescents proposes that the proportions of risk characters like utilization of substance rise across generations though other health-associated characters have obtained less interest. Variations across ethnic settings have been identified such as preventive health characters like the utilization of seat belts, consumption of healthy food, physical exercise (Allen, Elliott, Morales, Diamant, Hambarsoomiab & Schuster, 2007, p. 337).
Settlers and their progenies take up their characters, values, and principles from acculturation as they implement those that belong to the origin of their culture. Generation position has been related to differences in medical care access and usage, learning results, and health-risk characters. For instance, for Latino youths, drug utilization and involvement in sexual acts seem to rise with time. In addition, regarding preventive health behavior, Latino youths who visited the U.S. seemed to utilize seat belts more, compared to those who were born in the U.S. On the other hand, for Asian adolescents, the relationship of behavioral tendency with time continues to be greatly understudied. Nevertheless, Asian grown-ups’ utilization of tobacco and alcohol consumption rises between the initial and second age groups. Basically, the behavior or characters of the Whites does not mean that is the appropriate one but it is used for comparison purposes (Allen, Elliott, Morales, Diamant, Hambarsoomiab & Schuster, 2007, p. 337).
The study was carried out to compare the health-associated characters, ethnic tendencies, and behaviors among the Asians, Latinos, and Whites in order to select sub-groups where public health and medical interventions might be specifically significant. According to the results, there are distinguishing series of health-associated characters among the settler age groups for youths from Latino and Asia in California, despite the fact that socio-economic positions were controlled. Typically, Asian people demonstrated an aspect of sustenance or advancement in their health characters across the age groups. On the contrary, individuals from Latino demonstrated either worse preventive health characters or deterioration in characters across the age groups compared to Whites (Allen, Elliott, Morales, Diamant, Hambarsoomiab & Schuster, 2007, p. 338-340).
Additionally, variations were found regarding rates of disparities in the aspect of health behaviors. For example, discrepancy for Asians seemed to occur in the first age group though not in the later age groups while in Latinos, discrepancy either occurred in later groups or persisted across all age groups. Therefore, according to the above findings, the relationship of character with the period of experience to the majority of the U.S. culture as determined by generation position might vary by immigrant population (Allen, Elliott, Morales, Diamant, Hambarsoomiab & Schuster, 2007, p. 341).
Similarly, the discrepancy was also found in the aspect of ethnic groups in matters regarding education desires and achievement of second-cohort children. Such factors consist of employment skill levels, standard education, the percentage of the people who had been registered as settlers, and the percentage of those residing in two-parent houses. Barriers to attainment involved alleged ethnic and speedier acculturation of youths compared to their parents (Allen, Elliott, Morales, Diamant, Hambarsoomiab & Schuster, 2007, p. 342).
Therefore, this research article relates to the planned intervention since it gives the background information regarding Asians and Latinos in comparison to whites in matters regarding preventive health behaviors, racism, and trends across generations. Thus, it gives clear information that despite the ethnic discrepancy; all preventive health behaviors within the different groups will gain from the environmental health and medical interventions.
Reference List
Allen, L., Elliot, M., Morales, S., Diamant, L., Hambarsoomian, K., & Schuster, A. (2007). “Adolescent participation in preventive health behaviors, physical activity, and nutrition: Differences across immigrant generations for Asians and Latinos compared with Whites”. Am J Public Health; 97: 337-343.