OBJECTIVES We assessed relationships between sociodemographic characteristics and mental health status and knowledge of, being worried about, and stigmatization of 2 emerging infectious diseases: AIDS and SARS. METHODS We conducted a random-digit-dialed survey of 928 residents of the New York City metropolitan area as part of a study of the effects of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks...

It is well established that overweight and obesity are often accompanied by stigmatization. However, the influence of stigmatization on interventions for remains unknown. Stigma may be particularly harmful to children. This study aimed examine how affects efforts reduce childhood through family interventions. research was conducted in a socially disadvantaged area Denmark. Twenty-seven families...

Abstract Why does stigmatization sometimes fail? The literature on stigma in international relations has done an excellent job of pointing to the role successful processes play construction and maintenance normative hierarchies, but there been far less exploration conditions under which they may fail this purpose potential consequences for security society. This article contributes such by focu...

Grounded in attitude to ethnicity, gender, health, age and other social variables stigmatization is deeply entrenched today's society. In the light of increasing life expectancy changing structure population, problem gerontological ageism seems be relevant. The negative view anthropometric, cognitive, physical characteristics older adults acceptable society thus adversely affecting their qualit...