From Theory to Policy
Reducing Harms Associated with the Weight-Centered Health Paradigm
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18986993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caitlin O'Reilly, Caitlin O’Reilly (University of British Columbia, corresponding author), Judith Sixsmith (0000-0002-3290-1343, Simon Fraser University) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-113 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Fat Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2160-486X • E-ISSN: 2160-4851 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21604851.2012.627792 |
| OpenAlex | W2135992234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article provides an overview of harms associated with public policy promotion of the weight-centered health paradigm and suggests that a shift away from weight-centered health policies is required. Given the evidence about the negative health implications of weight-centric health policies, the objectives are to explore why public policy officials uncritically rely on and promote the weight-centered health paradigm and to propose policy alternatives. Based on findings from discourse analysis of “obesity”-related 1 1. In this paper “overweight” and “obesity” are put in quotes in recognition of the stigmatizing and medicalized nature of these terms and the preference expressed by many in the fat studies community to instead use the word “fat” (Wann, 2009 Wann, M. 2009. “Foreword: Fat studies: An invitation to revolution”. In The fat studies reader, Edited by: Rothblum, E. and Solovay, S. New York: New York University Press. [Google Scholar]). policy documents, public health policy solutions to the weight-centered health paradigm are proposed and analyzed, drawing from ten key informant interviews with stakeholders working within the policy, academic, and medical contexts
Health promotion · Obesity · Overweight · Political science · Public health · Public policy · Public relations · Sociology · Weight stigma · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Law · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Health Policy
The Weight-Inclusive versus Weight-Normative Approach to Health
Impact of weight bias and stigma on quality of care and outcomes for patients with obesity
Exploring the impact of physical activity-related weight stigma among women with self-identified obesity
‘ There were other guys in the same boat as myself’
Produce prescription programs, bodily norms, and federal nutrition policy
Eating Disorder Prevention as Biopedagogy
Overcoming weight bias
The “Obesity Epidemic”
Nothing about us without us’
Dietary approaches to weight-loss, Health At Every Size® and beyond
Governing the child-citizen
Theorizing health at every size as a relational–cultural endeavour
Obesity discourse and fat politics
What’s Wrong With the ‘War on Obesity?’ A Narrative Review of the Weight-Centered Health Paradigm and Development of the 3C Framework to Build Critical Competency for a Paradigm Shift
A systematic review of observational studies exploring the relationship between health and non-weight-centric eating behaviours
Obesity, Health at Every Size, and Public Health Policy
Treating the binge or the (fat) body? Representations of fatness in a gold standard psychological treatment manual for binge eating disorder
Words with weight
An Ecological Framework for Sexual Minority Women's Health
Gut feelings and lived experiences
I've Come to This Approach Through a Lot of Learning and Unlearning
Doggone fat
Critical Discursive Psychology
Onset of adolescent eating disorders
Weight Bias among Health Professionals Specializing in Obesity
Associations of Weight-Based Teasing and Emotional Well-being Among Adolescents
Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity
Perceptions of weight discrimination
The epidemiology of overweight and obesity
Size Acceptance and Intuitive Eating Improve Health for Obese, Female Chronic Dieters
Weight Stigmatization and Ideological Beliefs
Implicit anti-fat bias among health professionals
Confronting and Coping with Weight Stigma
Medicare's search for effective obesity treatments
Discourse Analysis and its Utility for Urban Policy Research
Critical Discourse Analysis and the Corpus-informed Interpretation of Metaphor at the Register Level
Gluttony or sloth’
Using thematic analysis in psychology
| Unique citing works | 22 |
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| Citations per year | 1,69 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |