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Obesity Stigma: Important Considerations for Public Health
American Journal of Public Health, 2010 Stigma and discrimination toward obese persons are pervasive and pose numerous consequences for their psychological and physical health. Despite decades of science documenting weight stigma, its public health implications are widely ignored. Instead, obese persons are blamed for their weight, with common perceptions that weight stigmatization is ...
Rebecca M, Puhl, Chelsea A, Heuer
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Monkeypox, stigma and public health
The Lancet Regional Health. Europe, 2022 Julian W. März +2 more
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Self-Stigma vs. Perceived Public Stigma Toward Mental Illness in Rural Adults
Journal of Regional Medical CampusesIntroduction: Mental illness is a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior. Stigma toward mental health comes in two primary forms: Self-stigma and perceived public stigma.
Brent McCreary +3 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Drug abuse and addiction exist around the world. People addicted to drugs such as opium or heroin often encounter dehumanizing discriminatory behaviors and health-care systems that are reluctant to provide services.
Sebastian Sattler +7 more
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Obesity, stigma and public health planning [PDF]
Health Promotion International, 2008 Given the rise in obesity rates in North America, concerns about obesity-related costs to the health care system are being stressed in both the popular media and the scientific literature. With such constant calls to action, care must be taken not to increase stigmatization of obese people, particularly of children.
Lynne, MacLean +5 more
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Normalization of Negative Stigma Against HIV/AIDS Patients: A Systematic Review of the Literature [PDF]
, 2023 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a public health problem that stigmatizes its victims. Mental attacks, as a result of labeling and discrimination, result in psychological suffering and well-being for persons
Machmud, Muslimin +2 more
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Health Psychology Report, 2021 Introduction Steeped in Chinese culture which considers continuing the family lineage highly important, infertility stigma endorsed by others and oneself can both negatively impact psychological well-being in women with infertility in Taiwan.
Yi-Tung Lin +4 more
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The stigma system: How sociopolitical domination, scapegoating, and stigma shape public health
Journal of Community Psychology, 2021 Abstract Stigma is a fundamental driver of adverse health outcomes. Although stigma is often studied at the individual level to focus on how stigma influences the mental and physical health of the stigmatized, considerable research has shown that stigma is multilevel and structural.
Samuel R. Friedman +11 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2021 Background Individuals with psychiatric disorders are often unwilling to seek help or often follow treatment regimens, fearing public stigma. This study identified the sociodemographic correlates of public stigma while accounting for mental health ...
Lincoln Lik Hang Lo +8 more
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Leveraging Neuroscience to Fight Stigma Around Mental Health
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 Labels serve as identifiers and convenient descriptors of inanimate and animate objects. In humans, given labels can easily become part of an individual’s self-perceived identity.
Osborne F. X. Almeida +2 more
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