Body-image perception and dissatisfaction: acknowledging the sociocultural factors of obesity in South Africa

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dc.date.accessioned	2016-09-28	en
dc.date.accessioned	2022-08-17T15:34:08Z
dc.date.available	2022-08-17T15:34:08Z
dc.date.issued	2016-09-30	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/10159
dc.description	HSRC Policy Brief, March	en
dc.description.abstract	This policy brief recommends that the South African Department of Health (DoH) endorses the necessary strategies directed at educating South Africans on how to correctly identify their body size, to increase awareness of a normal/healthy body size, to advocate the importance of adopting a healthy body size and to restrict the use of words like lose or gain weight in health messages as this terminology has the potential to harm people by increasing the stigma attached to being thin or fat.	en
dc.format.medium	Print	en
dc.subject	OBESITY	en
dc.subject	BODY IMAGE	en
dc.subject	WEIGHT MANAGEMENT	en
dc.subject	HEALTH	en
dc.title	Body-image perception and dissatisfaction: acknowledging the sociocultural factors of obesity in South Africa	en
dc.type	Policy briefs	en
dc.description.version	Y	en
dc.ProjectNumber	N/A	en
dc.BudgetYear	2016/17	en
dc.ResearchGroup	Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation	en
dc.ArchiveNumber	9399	en
dc.URL	http://ktree.hsrc.ac.za/doc_read_all.php?docid=16901	en
dc.outputnumber	8244	en
dc.bibliographictitle	Mchiza, Z.J., Labadarios, D., Parker, W. & Bikitsha, N. (2016) Body-image perception and dissatisfaction: acknowledging the sociocultural factors of obesity in South Africa. (HSRC Policy Brief, March). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/10159	en
dc.publicationyear	2016	en
dc.contributor.author1	Mchiza, Z.J.	en
dc.contributor.author2	Labadarios, D.	en
dc.contributor.author3	Parker, W.	en
dc.contributor.author4	Bikitsha, N.	en