Essays about: "Karin Gonzalez Johansen"

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  1. 1. Weight bias amongst health professionals on Instagram : A critical multimodal discourse analysis

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärd

    Author : Karin Gonzalez Johansen; [2020]
    Keywords : Communication; discourse analysis; social media; weight bias; weight stigma;

    Abstract : Weight bias and weight stigmatization are independent risk factors for poor health, and are brought up within health promotion, as focus areas when it comes to interventions targeting body weight (WHO, 2017; Pearl, 2018). Discourses within the society, can either reinforce weight bias and weight stigmatization towards people in larger bodies, or disrupt them. READ MORE