forcing government to re-evaluate the role of the public sector; with the marshalling of public services, including the public health system, community services, support systems for income and business, and the police [92]. A strong case now exists for renationalising a broad scope...
Men living with obesity in New Zealand: What does this mean for health care in general practice?Primary careMenWeight managementObesityMore men than women live with overweight and obesity in New Zealand, yet we know little about their everyday lives or their weight management experiences in ...
like Valentine's Day for example, there was a feeling that there should be a day that devoted to celebrating - and destigmatising - those who are single.
“Because that’s so stigmatising and damaging to women. That’s not fair.” Harris, McDole adds, has “got experience up the wazoo”. Several Democratic voters, however, say a female nominee would help amplify perhaps the party’s strongest issue: abortion access. ...
There seems to be a need for universal, non-stigmatising services which design their programmes with parents and can refer to more specialised services, e.g. Social Services or Family Centres. These services need to be located in agencies which parents frequent and are comfortable with, such ...
emotions due to many things – a bad day at work, a relationship break-up, a sad film, or just getting out of bed on the "wrong side". Sometimes we even say that we're feeling a bit "depressed". But what does that mean, and how can we tell when it's more than just a ...
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Seheff (1984) upheld this view by suggesting that stigmatising a person will often mean that a retrospective labelling takes place via the interpretation of someone’s past being consistent with their present and future self. Further support comes from Becker’s (1963:9) statements where he sug...
this thing to someone with cancer?”. Of course the person might think that mental illness and physical illness are different, and that the former is a person’s fault, while the latter isn’t. Changing that outlook is the most important task in the fight against stigmatising mental ...
This finds particularly strong expression in negative form: culturally inappropriate foods are those for which taboos exist (Wien and Sabaté 2015; see also Regan and Gutierrez 2005) or that are associated with "low cultural status" and thus stigmatising, causing shame and embar- rassment (...