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Obesity stigma as a globalizing health challenge

Overview of attention for article published in Globalization and Health, February 2018
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Title
Obesity stigma as a globalizing health challenge
Published in
Globalization and Health, February 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12992-018-0337-x
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Authors

Alexandra Brewis, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Amber Wutich

Abstract

Based on studies conducted in the global north, it is well documented that those who feel stigmatized by overweight/obesity can suffer extreme emotional distress, be subject to (often legal and socially-acceptable) discrimination, and adjust diet and exercise behaviors. These lead to significant negative health impacts, including depression and further weight gain. To date, weight-related stigma has been conceptualized as a problem particular to the highest income, industrialized, historically thin-valorizing societies like the US, Australasia, and Western Europe. There is limited but highly suggestive evidence that obesity stigma is an emergent phenomenon that affects populations across the global south. Emergent evidence includes: implicit and explicit measures showing very high levels of weight stigma in middle and low-income countries, complex ethnographic evidence of widespread anti-fat beliefs even where fat-positivity endures, the globalization of new forms of "fat talk," and evidence of the emotional and material damage of weight-related rejection or mistreatment even where severe undernutrition is still a major challenge. Recognizing weight stigma as a global health problem has significant implications for how public health conceives and implements appropriate responses to the growing "obesity epidemic" in middle and lower income settings.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 244 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 35 14%
Student > Bachelor 25 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 10%
Researcher 14 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 5%
Other 40 16%
Unknown 94 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 32 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 28 11%
Social Sciences 27 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 7%
Sports and Recreations 7 3%
Other 35 14%
Unknown 98 40%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 349. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 August 2021.
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#93,985
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#1
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