Integrating Across Diverse Perspectives to Improve Health and Wellbeing: Obesity as an Illustrative Case

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    Abstract

    This chapter focuses on obesity to exemplify the broader need for a more thoroughgoing integrative approach to health. The authors begin by sampling some of the key adverse consequences of obesity at the biological, psychological, and societal levels. Since an awareness of such costs can degenerate into a blaming response toward higher-weight people, the authors then address the pernicious issue of weight stigma and highlight its erroneous suppositions by drawing attention to the complex (and still inadequately understood) drivers of obesity that operate at the environmental level in interaction with individual vulnerability factors. The discussion then moves on to examine obesity intervention approaches across the various psychological, medical, and societal scales. The authors conclude by offering an integrated model for understanding obesity that can inform coordinated policy and action.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationToward an Integrated Science of Wellbeing
    PublisherOxford University Press
    Pages215-239
    Number of pages25
    ISBN (Electronic)9780197567609
    ISBN (Print)9780197567579
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - May 2023

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