MAME4440 Migration, Food and Health Course description

Students who are admitted to Master studies within the following subject areas are eligible to apply for admission to the course: nutrition and/or health and nursing Sciences.

Upon completion of the course the student will have obtained the following learning outcomes, defined as knowledge, skills and general competencies:

Knowledge

The student

• has advanced knowledge on the importance of food culture and how food is used in different cultures to denote identity, social status and gender roles
• can analyse and apply theoretical approaches related to changes in food habits after migration, with a particular focus on dietary acculturation
• has advanced knowledge on the process of dietary transition and how migration may affect this process and health
• can apply knowledge on how changes in food habits after migration can lead to increase of non-communicable diseases
• has advanced knowledge of scientific literature addressing nutrition intervention with multicultural population, with a particular focus on cultural sensitive interventions

Skills

The student

• can analyse and deal critically with relevant interventions addressing public health nutritional challenges in multicultural population
• can use relevant methods to assess the need of nutritional intervention in multicultural population
• can use relevant methods to develop, pilot and evaluate culturally sensitive nutrition interventions for multicultural population

General competencies

The student

• can apply knowledge and skills to research and professional activities related to food habits and health in multicultural population
• can communicate extensively with professionals of various discipline

Students are responsible for achieving the outlined learning objectives, and are expected to participate actively during the course and contribute to its success. A variety of learning approaches will be used, including:

Lectures with subsequent discussions, self-study, group work, interactive exchange among students and between students and resource persons, oral presentations, short stages at relevant institutions and organizations working with multicultural population.

Obligatory assignments

• Oral presentation in group (3-4 students per group) of relevant literature.
• Group (3-4 students per group) written assignment (2000 words (+/- 25 %)), followed by an oral presentation on the development of a specific nutrition intervention targeting multicultural population or selected groups.

Written exam (1500 words (+/- 10 %), in English or Norwegian, individual, 48 hours. The exam text is given in English.

Assessment

A grading scale of A (highest) to F (lowest) where A to E is a pass grade and F is a fail grade.

Examination resources

All.

Use of Examiners

Internal and external examiner.

Syllabus

Crowder, S. J., & Broome, M. E. (2012). A Framework to Evaluate the Cultural Appropriateness of Intervention Research. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 34 (8), 1002-1022. Hentet fra:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1177/0193945912451656

Davidson, E. M., Liu, J. J., Bhopal, R., White, M., Johnson, M. R. D., Netto, G., . . . Sheikh, A. (2013). Behavior Change Interventions to Improve the Health of Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations: A Tool Kit of Adaptation Approaches. Milbank Quarterly, 91 (4), 811-851 Hentet fra: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.hioa.no/doi/10.1111/1468-0009.12034/full

Foronda, C. L. (2008). A Concept Analysis of Cultural Sensitivity. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 19 (3), 207-212. Hentet fra http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1177/1043659608317093

Garnweidner, L. M., Terragni, L., Pettersen, K. S., & Mosdol, A. (2012). Perceptions of the host country's food culture among female immigrants from Africa and Asia: Aspects relevant for cultural sensitivity in nutrition communication. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 44 (4), 335-342. Hentet frahttp://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1016/j.jneb.2011.08.005

Gele, A. A., Pettersen, K. S., Torheim, L. E. & Kumar, B. (2016). Health literacy: The missing link in improving the health of Somali immigrant women in Oslo. BMC Public Health, 16 (1), 1134 Hentet frahttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3790-6.

Gele, A. A., Pettersen, K. S., Kumar, B. & Torheim, L. E. (2016). Diabetes Risk by Length of Residence among Somali Women in Oslo Area. Journal of Diabetes Research, 2016 . [10 s.] Hentet frahttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5423405.

Grewal, N. K., Andersen, L. F., Sellen, D., Mosdøl, A., & Torheim, L. E. (2016). Breast-feeding and complementary feeding practices in the first 6 months of life among Norwegian-Somali and Norwegian-Iraqi infants: the InnBaKost survey. 19 (4), 703-715. Hentet fra:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1017/S1368980015001962

Hadley, C., Zodhiates, A., & Sellen, D. W. (2007). Acculturation, economics and food insecurity among refugees resettled in the USA: A case study of West African refugees. Public Health Nutrition, 10 (4), 405-412. Hentet fra: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1017/S1368980007222943

Hibbah, A., Nicolaou, M., Powell, K., Terragni, L., Maes, L., Stronks, K., . . . Holdsworth, M. (2016). Systematic mapping review of the factors influencing dietary behaviour in ethnic minority groups living in Europe: A DEDIPAC study. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 13 . Hentet fra http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1186/s12966-016-0412-8

Huff, R. M., Kline, M. V. & Peterson, D. V. (2015). Health promotion in multicultural populations : a handbook for practitioners and students (3. utg.). Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage. [Ch. 1-8]

Kinnunen, T., Waage, C., Sommer, C., Sletner, L., Raitanen, J., & Jenum, A. (2016). Ethnic differences in gestational weight gain: A population-based cohort study in Norway. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 20 (7), 1485-1496. Hentet fra http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1007/s10995-016-1947-7

Langøien, L. J., Terragni, L., Rugseth, G., Nicolaou, M., Holdsworth, M., Stronks, K., . . . Roos, G. (2017). Systematic mapping review of the factors influencing physical activity and sedentary behaviour in ethnic minority groups in Europe: A DEDIPAC study. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 14 (1) Hentet fra http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2454325

Lorentzen, C., Ommundsen, Y., Jenum, A. K., & Holme, I. (2009). The "Romsås in motion" community intervention: Mediating effects of psychosocial factors on forward transition in the stages of change in physical activity. Health Education and Behavior, 36 (2), 348-365. Hentet fra:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1177/1090198107308372

Ludwig, A. F., Cox, P., & Ellahi, B. (2011). Social and cultural construction of obesity among Pakistani muslim women in North West England. Public Health Nutrition, 14 (10), 1842-1850. Hentet fra:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1017/S1368980010003472

Napier, A. D., Ancarno, C., Butler, B., Calabrese, J., Chater, A., Chatterjee, H., . . . Woolf, K. (2014). Culture and health. The Lancet, 384 (9954), 1607-1639. Hentet fra:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61603-2

Netto, G., Bhopal, R., Lederle, N., Khatoon, J. & Jackson, A. (2010). How can health promotion interventions be adapted for minority ethnic communities? Five principles for guiding the development of behavioural interventions. Health Promotion International, 25 (2), 248-257 Hentet fra https://academic.oup.com/heapro/article/25/2/248/561117.

Neuhauser, L., Rothschild, R., & Rodríguez, F. M. (2007). MyPyramid.gov: Assessment of literacy, cultural and linguistic factors in the USDA Food pyramid web site. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 39(4), 219-225. Hentet fra: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1016/j.jneb.2007.03.005

Nicolaou, M., Doak, C. M., van Dam, R. M., Brug, J., Stronks, K. & Seidell, J. C. (2009). Cultural and Social Influences on Food Consumption in Dutch Residents of Turkish and Moroccan Origin: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 41 (4), 232-241 Hentet fra http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S149940460800701X.

Popkin, B. M., & Gordon-Larsen, P. (2004). The nutrition transition: Worldwide obesity dynamics and their determinants. International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders, 28 , S2-S9. Hentet fra:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1038/sj.ijo.0802804

Raza, Q., Doak, C., Khan, A., Nicolaou, M., & Seidell, J. C. (2013). Obesity and cardiovascular disease risk factors among the indigenous and immigrant Pakistani population: A systematic review. Obesity facts, 6(6), 523-535. Hentet fra: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1159/000357176

Satia-Abouta, J. (2003). Dietary acculturation: definition, process, assessment, and implications. International Journal of Human Ecology, 4 (1), 71-86. Hentet fra http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.113.1379&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Taylor, N. J., Sahota, P., Sargent, J., Barber, S., Loach, J., Louch, G. & Wright, J. (2013). Using intervention mapping to develop a culturally appropriate intervention to prevent childhood obesity: The HAPPY (Healthy and Active Parenting Programme for Early Years) study. The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, 10 , 142. Hentet fra https://doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-10-142.

Wallia, S., Bhopal, R. S., Douglas, A., Bhopal, R., Sharma, A., Hutchison, A.,... Sheikh, A. (2014). Culturally adapting the prevention of diabetes and obesity in South Asians (PODOSA) trial. Health Promotion International, 29 (4), 768. Hentet fra: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1093/heapro/dat015

Wandel, M., Terragni, L., Nguyen, C., Lyngstad, J., Amundsen, M., & de Paoli, M. (2016). Breastfeeding among Somali mothers living in Norway: Attitudes, practices and challenges. Women and Birth 29 (6) ,487-493. Hentet fra: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.hioa.no/10.1016/j.wombi.2016.04.006

(Literature list last updated: 15.12.2017. Gjennomgått av Biblioteket Kjeller, kk/EA. APA-stil.)