Inequities in healthcare: a review of bias and discrimination in obesity treatment

M Forhan, XR Salas - Canadian journal of diabetes, 2013 - Elsevier
A bstract This review is based on an exploration of the published literature over the past 20
years in the area of weight bias, stigma and discrimination and its association with obesity …

Monitoring foods and beverages provided and sold in public sector settings

M L'Abbé, A Schermel, L Minaker, B Kelly… - obesity …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper outlines a step‐wise framework for monitoring foods and beverages provided or
sold in publicly funded institutions. The focus is on foods in schools, but the framework can …

Are medical students aware of their anti-obesity bias?

DP Miller Jr, JG Spangler, MZ Vitolins… - Academic …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Purpose Anti-obesity prejudices affect the quality of care obese individuals receive. The
authors sought to determine the prevalence of weight-related biases among medical …

Public beliefs about the causes of obesity and attitudes towards policy initiatives in Great Britain

RJ Beeken, J Wardle - Public health nutrition, 2013 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveTo assess attributions for overweight and the level of support for policy initiatives in
Great Britain. DesignCross-sectional. Respondents indicated their agreement (5-point …

What is a disease? Perspectives of the public, health professionals and legislators

KAO Tikkinen, JS Leinonen, GH Guyatt, S Ebrahim… - BMJ open, 2012 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To assess the perception of diseases and the willingness to use public-tax
revenue for their treatment among relevant stakeholders. Design A population-based, cross …

Public support for a sugar-sweetened beverage tax and pro-tax messages in a Mid-Atlantic US state

EA Donaldson, JE Cohen, L Rutkow, AC Villanti… - Public health …, 2015 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveTo examine the characteristics of supporters and opponents of a sugar-sweetened
beverage (SSB) tax and to identify pro-tax messages that resonate with the public. DesignA …

Accounting for attribute‐level non‐attendance in a health choice experiment: Does it matter?

S Erdem, D Campbell, AR Hole - Health economics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
An extensive literature has established that it is common for respondents to ignore attributes
of the alternatives within choice experiments. In most of the studies on attribute non …

Free to choose or free to lose? Understanding individual attitudes toward paternalism

DD Lassen, D Mahler - Behavioural Public Policy, 2023 - cambridge.org
In the past decades, behavioral economics has credibly identified numerous decision-
making biases leading people to make choices they would not have made if better informed …

Intergenerational health mobility: Evidence from Danish registers

C Andersen - Health Economics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper is one of the first to investigate mobility in overall health using high‐quality
administrative data. The attractiveness of this approach lies in objective health measures …

Public attitudes towards prevention of obesity

C Sikorski, M Luppa, G Schomerus, P Werner… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Objective To investigate obesity prevention support in the German general public and to
assess determinants of general prevention support as well as support of specific prevention …