Obesity is one of the leading epidemics worldwide. Despite its prevalence, individuals with obesity often face significant weight bias and discrimination across various settings. Bias can manifest in various forms, including teasing, bullying, unfair treatment,disrespect, and misjudgment. It affects people of all ages, regardless of gender, race, or educational background. The consequences of obesity stigma are enormous. It impacts people with obesity at the socioeconomic level, psychologically and physically, which eventually harms their health. In healthcare, obesity stigmatization leads to reduced and delayed access to health services and a lower quality of care. Many strategies and recommendations have been proposed to reduce and hopefully end obesity and weight stigma. In this review, we discuss definitions, prevalence, biases among healthcare providers, perceptions of bias among people with obesity, the consequences of stigma, and recommended strategies to minimize obesity stigmatization in healthcare. Keywords: obesity stigma, weight bias, weight discrimination, weight stigma
Al-Kurbi et al. (Wed,) studied this question.