Healthism and the experiences of social, healthcare and self-stigma of women with higher weight

This study analyses how the discourse of healthism contributes to the social construction of weight stigma in women with higher-weight. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine women who had undergone bariatric surgery and had lived with higher-weight during many years. A thematic analysis from a latent and constructionist perspective showed how the discourse of healthism was behind the experiences of stigma lived by the participants in the social and healthcare field. Even instances of self-stigma were found in our data. This study also illustrates how people influenced by healthism assumed individualism and the importance of body shape, core values of neoliberal consumer societies. In this way, people tended to blame women with higher-weight for their weight and to discriminate against for being far from the socially established ideal body. The findings can be useful to prevent weight stigmatization and to promote more appropriate and respectful strategies for obesity prevention and treatment

The most frequent neurologic disturbances: a contribution to the definition of topics for the programmatic content to the program of neurology in medical graduation

Made available in DSpace on 2019-09-12T16:56:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2000Introduction: Knowledge accumulation is overfilling the thematic content of medical graduation. Medical Schools must be alert to define a minimal content related with the most frequent disturbs. We intent to suggest topics for the minimal content, to the program of Neurology in medical graduation. Method: 1. To identify the places where young doctors are working outside the School Hospital (SH): we analysed the answers of the letters sent to 6415 resident - doctors (RD) in Sao Paulo's State and we made personal interview with 201 RD. 2. To verify the most frequent neuropsichiatric disturbs (ND) in the population: we made the analysis of the patient's diagnostic records in emergency room of three institutions: Municipal of Taubate-SP Municipal of Sao Jose dos Campos-SP and Faculty of Medicine of Sao Paulo Santa Caza de Misericordia. Results: 1, The RD are young and, outside the SH, they work in other emergency services.',. The mast frequent diagnosis in institutions were listed: alcoholism, cerebrovascular disease, corns, cranial trauma, dementia, dizziness, epilepsy, facial paralysis, faint, headache, hemiplegia or paraplegia, meningitis, others paralysis, periferical neuropathy and psychiatric disordes. Conclusions Those diagnostics most frequent are relevant topics of the programmatic content to the program of Neurology in medical graduation.Universidade de Taubaté (Unitau), Disciplina Neurol & Neurocirurgia, Dept Med; Univ Sao Paulo, Fac Med, Sao Paulo, Brazil; FCM, Med Acad, Sao Paulo, Brazi