Using a Household Food Inventory to Assess the Availability of Traditional Vegetables among Resettled African Refugees

Catherine Gichunge, Shawn Somerset and Neil Harris
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Catherine Gichunge: School of Health Sciences, Mount Kenya University, P.O. Box 342, Thika 01000, Kenya
Shawn Somerset: School of Allied Health, Australian Catholic University, P.O. Box 456, Virginia, Brisbane 4001, Australia
Neil Harris: Population and Social Health Research Program, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast 4222, Australia

IJERPH, 2016, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: A cross-sectional sequential explanatory mixed methods study was conducted among household food preparers to examine the association between home availability and consumption of traditional vegetables among resettled African refugees living in Queensland, Australia. Home availability of traditional African vegetables was associated with age, having a vegetable garden, employment status, and having a supermarket in the local neighborhood. Food preparers from homes with low vegetable availability were less likely to consume the recommended number of vegetable servings. Barriers faced in the food environment included language, lack of availability of traditional vegetables and lack of transport. All of these aspects contributed to the study findings that both individual and food environment characteristics may play a role in access to and availability of food and vegetable consumption of resettled refugees. Consumption of traditional foods among the resettled refugees continues post resettlement.

Keywords: household food inventory; African traditional vegetables; vegetable availability; vegetable intake; resettled African refugees; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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