Weight Bias
This new Rudd Report covers the consequences of bias in employment, health care and education; provides citations for important studies; suggests responses to common arguments against the need for weight bias; and discusses current law, and policy recommendations.
Other Rudd Center initiatives include:
Bias-Reduction Videos: Several films on weight bias are being created to increase awareness about the problem among students, teachers, parents, and health providers.
Childhood obesity and educational achievement: This research will evaluate the relation between children's body weight and educational achievement and estimate how school absenteeism is related to body weight of children.
New science on weight bias: In Fall, 2008, the scientific journal Obesity will publish a special issue devoted to new research on weight bias. Rudd Center faculty served as editors for it, recruiting scientists from North America and Europe to contribute their peer-reviewed research studies.
Online educational resource for health providers: The Center has launched a new web-based Continuing Medical Education course to help providers reduce weight bias and improve delivery of health care to obese patients. The free course has been accredited by the Yale School of Medicine.
For more information:
- The Rudd Center is at the forefront of global efforts to reduce weight-based discrimination. To read more, please visit the Weight Bias section of our website.
- NAASO, The Obesity Society