BACKGROUND Stigmatizing attitudes towards obese people are common in the public. Based on findings that portrayals of obesity in entertainment media foster weight-related stigmatization, the goal of the current study was to analyze media coverage of obesity in daily newspapers. METHODS For the year 2006, all 1,563 issues of five high-circulation daily newspapers (two national newspapers, one ...

Representation is key in the politics of mass-mediated consumer society. Although previous research has noted that representation advertising generates greater societal visibility for people with disabilities, focus largely been on negative unintended consequences from a psychological or socio-cultural perspective. The purpose this study to explore complexities involved making collective psyche...

Abstract Issue/problem The pandemic and earthquakes that hit Croatia have increased the need to develop an effective community based mental health care system. Description of problem In Croatia, hospitalization rate for depression has doubled in last 20 years, growing needs are mainly related children young people. average length hospital stay due disorders is higher than EU average, as suicide...

Today it is almost unnecessary to insist further on the recognition of importance of mental disorders in terms of the enormous influence they have on every-day quality of life of patients and their families, but also in terms of the significant socioeconomic burden those disorders represent for the community as a whole. It is always easy to use sheer magnitude of a certain health problem and di...

ecently, one of the faculty members of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences was severely attacked in the hospital’s clinic by a patient with psychotic symptoms. Apart from the terrible and dramatic dimensions of the incident, this violent behavior can be carefully considered in several aspects as a Workplace Violence (WPV). First of all, this patient was a man with psychotic characteristics di...

oral health problems, among the most prevalent comorbidities related to addiction, require more attention by both clinicians and policy-makers. our aims were to review oral complications associated with drugs, oral health care in addiction rehabilitation, health services available, and barriers against oral health promotion among addicts. drug abuse is associated with serious oral health proble...

BACKGROUND This study aims to examine the public's attitudes and predictors of social distance towards women afflicted by eating disorders (anorexia nervosa [AN] and bulimia nervosa [BN]) under specific consideration of the respondents' sex. Eating disorders are still often seen as a women's health issue, and those afflicted remain stigmatized in Western societies. The concept of social distanc...