Stigmatizing attitudes toward obesity in a representative population-based sample

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1529-1534

  Hilbert, Anja ^a   Rief, Winfried ^a   Braehler, Elmar ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREJUDICE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC OPINION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 46249108496     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.263     Document Type: Article

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