drinking heavily. We used data from the US Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID), a national population-based cohort that has …

. This review identifies at least four mechanisms by which a pervasive environment of fat stigma could reinforce high body … of stigma in driving the etiology of obesity, and explicates how individual, interpersonal, and structural dimensions of … stigma are connected to variation in health outcomes, including across generations. …

science to treat infertility and greater perceived stigma were associated with higher odds of using the Internet to obtain …

A growing body of literature supports stigma and discrimination as fundamental causes of health disparities. Stigma and …. Transgender stigma and discrimination experienced in health care influence transgender people's health care access and utilization …. Thus, understanding how stigma and discrimination manifest and function in health care encounters is critical to addressing …

Social influence is an important component of contemporary conceptualizations of masculinity in the U.S. Men who fail … social influence, and avoiding the stigma associated with the failure to do so. …

This article uses a multilevel approach to review the literature on interventions with promise to reduce social stigma …

Transgender and gender nonconforming people face stigma and discrimination from a wide variety of sources and through … numerous social realms. Stigma and discrimination originating from biomedicine and health care provision may impact this group …'s access to primary care. Such stigma and discrimination may originate not only from direct events and past negative …

We incorporate anthropological insights into a stigma framework to elucidate the role of culture in threat perception … and stigma among Chinese groups. Prior work suggests that genetic contamination that jeopardizes the extension of one … to 2003 assessed cultural differences in mental illness stigma and perceptions of threat in 56 Chinese-Americans and 589 …