Harms of Framing Obesity as a Disease of Individuals
This Viewpoint examines how framing obesity as an individual disease that should be treated may impact addressing the larger systemic- and policy-driven roots of the problem that could be addressed to effectively prevent the disease.
Authors
- Yogi Hale Hendlin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1714-6132)
- Luc L Hagenaars (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9043-0706)
- Grant Ennis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7008-644X)
Institutions
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Department of Public (IN)
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers (NL)
- Monash University (AU)
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Health Forum
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.0968
- Primary Topic
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00