O'Reilly, C. and Sixsmith, J. (2012) From theory to policy: reducing harms associated with the weight-centered health paradigm. Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society. 1(1), pp. 97-113. 2160-4851.
Item Type: | Article |
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Abstract: | 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 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. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | public policy, public health, weight-centered health paradigm, health at every size |
Subjects: |
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA643 Disease (Communicable and non-infectious) and public health > RA645.O23 Obesity R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC628 Obesity |
Creators: | O'Reilly, Caitlin and Sixsmith, Judith |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Northamptonshire and East Midlands: | Health |
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: | University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Health & Society |
Date: | 19 January 2012 |
Date Type: | Publication |
Page Range: | pp. 97-113 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society |
Volume: | 1 |
Number: | 1 |
Language: | English |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2012.627792 |
ISSN: | 2160-4851 |
Status: | Published / Disseminated |
URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/6500 |
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