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Descriptor English: Weight Prejudice
Descriptor Spanish: Prejuicio de Peso
Descriptor prejuicios por el peso
Entry term(s) discriminación por el peso
estigma por el peso
fobia a la obesidad
prejuicios contra las personas obesas
sesgo antiobesidad
sesgo contra la obesidad
sesgo de obesidad
sesgo por el peso
Scope note: Actitudes negativas hacia otras personas y creencias negativas sobre otras personas a causa de su peso. Estas actitudes negativas se manifiestan por estereotipos y/o prejuicios hacia las personas que tienen un peso superior o inferior a la norma cultural.
Descriptor Portuguese: Preconceito de Peso
Descriptor French: Préjudice à l'égard du poids
Entry term(s): Anti-Fat Bias
Bias, Obesity
Discrimination, Weight-based
Discriminations, Weight-based
Fat Bias
Fat Phobia
Fat Shaming
Fat Shamings
Fatphobia
Obesity Bias
Prejudice, Weight
Prejudices, Weight
Shaming, Fat
Shamings, Fat
Weight Bias
Weight Prejudices
Weight Stigma
Weight based Discrimination
Weight-Based Discrimination
Weight-based Discrimination
Weight-based Discriminations
Tree number(s): F01.145.813.550.813
F01.829.595.813
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000079322
Scope note: Negative attitudes towards and beliefs about others because of their weight. These negative attitudes are manifested by stereotypes and/or prejudice towards people with weight over or under a cultural norm.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
EH ethnology
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PC prevention & control
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 2020
History Note: 2020
DeCS ID: 59273
Unique ID: D000079322
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Date Established: 2020/01/01
Date of Entry: 2019/07/08
Revision Date: 2019/06/20
Weight Prejudice - Preferred
Concept UI M000644231
Scope note Negative attitudes towards and beliefs about others because of their weight. These negative attitudes are manifested by stereotypes and/or prejudice towards people with weight over or under a cultural norm.
Preferred term Weight Prejudice
Entry term(s) Anti-Fat Bias
Bias, Obesity
Discrimination, Weight-based
Discriminations, Weight-based
Fat Bias
Fat Phobia
Fatphobia
Obesity Bias
Prejudice, Weight
Prejudices, Weight
Weight Prejudices
Weight Bias - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000743111
Preferred term Weight Bias
Weight Stigma - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000743112
Preferred term Weight Stigma
Weight-Based Discrimination - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000749265
Preferred term Weight-Based Discrimination
Entry term(s) Weight based Discrimination
Weight-based Discrimination
Weight-based Discriminations
Fat Shaming - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000749266
Preferred term Fat Shaming
Entry term(s) Fat Shamings
Shaming, Fat
Shamings, Fat



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