Managing obesity is often an uphill battle, marked by a lack of information and stigmatization, which only adds to the psychological and physical suffering of overweight individuals....

Alerted by interventions by professionals that risked stigmatizing young people in school settings (weighing students, organizing weight-loss contests), the Montérégie Public Health...

In Quebec, recent studies show an increase in problems related to excess weight, as well as the risks posed by excessive concern about weight, whether justified or not. For the...

"No one is more concerned with social norms than teenagers," explains psychologist Dominique Berger. At school, teenagers blend into a "clique" to which they belong. Those who remain on...

Numerous programs and campaigns aimed at combating stigma have been developed and evaluated. The findings indicate that communication campaigns have not demonstrated significant effects,...

The goal of therapeutic education is to improve the quality of life for patients with chronic conditions by taking their expectations and needs into account. Paradoxically, as the...

When the HIV virus was discovered in the 1980s, people living with the virus faced severe stigma. The advocacy movement was formed precisely to combat this stigma. Thirty years later,...

Often, a person is stigmatized simply because they are sick. Christian Saout, president of the Inter-Association Health Collective (CISS), condemns this kind of societal rejection....

What do scientific studies say about peer education? A collective review by Inserm examined scientific studies from around the world. It identifies this strategy as complementary to...

In Quebec, peer-led interventions are thriving. They are widely implemented among stigmatized populations—for example, in HIV prevention efforts and initiatives targeting vulnerable...