Language matters: pregnancy and overweight or obesity

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DATE 16 Aug 2021

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Pregnant women living with overweight or obesity experience weight stigma, even from some health professionals.

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Professor Helen Skouteris

Monash University
Dr Claire Pearce

ACT Health
Dr Briony Hill

Monash University

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Overweight and obesity

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Using health promotion to reduce the burden of obesity before and in pregnancy

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  <p><strong>Pregnant women living with overweight or obesity experience weight stigma, even from some health professionals.</strong></p>

<p>Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact CERI</p>

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<p>This article is republished from <a href="https://preventioncentre.org.au/"><u>The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre </u></a> under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence. <a href="https://preventioncentre.org.au/news/language-matters-pregnancy-and-overweight-or-obesity/">Read the original article</a>.</p>

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