Dietary patterns and their socio-demographic correlates in the context of migration and urbanisation demonstrate nutrition transitions in South Africa.

ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the demographic and socio-economic correlates of dietary patterns in South Africa, drawing on a sample of young adults experiencing internal migration and urbanisation. We use data from the 2018 baseline survey of the Migrant Health Follow-Up Study, an original longitudinal cohort study consisting of 3,087 internal migrants and rural residents aged 18-40 nested within the Agincourt Health and socio-Demographic Surveillance System in rural northeast South Africa. We employ principal components analysis to identify dietary patterns from food frequency questionnaires and ordinary least squares regression to assess whether migration and other socio-economic characteristics correlate with specific dietary patterns at baseline. We observe five distinct dietary patterns ch

SUBMITTER: Pheiffer CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11346347 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature