Obesity stigma: important considerations for public health.

By R. Puhl, Chelsea A. Heuer. American Journal of Public Health, 2010

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Pharmacy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Clinical Psychology

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3. L. Bacon
4. Lauren G. Block
5. Laura Peracchio
6. Dina Eliezer
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In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Janet Tomiyama
2. L. Bacon
3. Lauren G. Block
4. Laura Peracchio
5. L. Aphramor
6. Melissa G. Bublitz
7. Laura E. Durso

Citations in the corpus

• The Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework: a global, crosscutting framework to inform research, intervention development, and policy on health-related stigmas (2019, background): “For some health conditions, including HIV [8, 18, 19, 23, 34, 35], mental health [27, 28], child health [35], and obesity/overweight [17], frameworks addressing the social (e.”
• The Psychological Weight of Weight Stigma (2012, background): “stigma, obesity, self-regulation, identity threat, stress, prejudice Stigmatization of overweight and obese individuals in the United States is both profound and increasing (Andreyeva, Puhl, & Brownell, 2008; Puhl & Heuer, 2010).”
• Why did I eat that? Perspectives on food decision making and dietary restraint (2010, background): “Being overweight or obese has a negative effect on quality of life and has significant psychological (Falkner et al., 2001; Puhl & Heuer, 2010), sociological (Brownell, Puhl, Schwartz, & Rudd, 2005; Christakis & Fowler, 2009), and economic (Finkelstein, Trogdon, Cohen, & Dietz, 2009) costs.”
• Clicks as a Healthy Alternative to Bricks: How Online Grocery Shopping Reduces Vice Purchases (2017, background): “Being obese or overweight has an adverse impact on people’s quality of life, as well as significant sociological (Brownell et al. 2005; Christakis and Fowler 2009), psychological (Falkner et al. 2001; Puhl and Heuer 2010), and economic (Finkelstein et al. 2009) costs.”
• Weight stigma is stressful. A review of evidence for the Cyclic Obesity/Weight-Based Stigma model. (2014, background): “Weight stigma is highly prevalent (Puhl & Heuer, 2010) and ideal body size standards are very thin and internalized at ages as young as 3 (Harriger, Calogero, Witherington, & Smith, 2010).”
• Minority Stress and Physical Health Among Sexual Minorities (2013, background): “Other behaviors, such as binge eating and physical inactivity, are also associated with experiencing stigma (Durso, Latner, & Hayashi, 2012; Puhl & Heuer, 2010; Puhl, Moss-Racusin, & Schwartz, 2007).”
• Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift (2011, background): “However, as discussed previously in the section on the pursuit of weight loss, evidence suggests the opposite: promoting body discontent instead induces harm [122,133,134,152], resulting in less favorable lifestyle choices.”