Let's Talk About 'fat': Conceptualization of Obesity in Canada, the Role of Social Determinants of Health & Neoliberal Policies
| dc.contributor.advisor | Raphael, Dennis | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Daiski, Isolde | |
| dc.contributor.author | Medvedyuk, Stella | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-21T13:58:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-06-21T13:58:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-08-26 | |
| dc.description | Major Research Paper (Master's), Health, Faculty of Health, School of Health Policy and Management, York University | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the last twenty years, obesity has become a major concern in the public health and academic literatures. Most of this literature stems from a biomedical and behavioural/lifestyle perspective. However, parallel to this view emerged a different approach which questioned the validity of the obesity ‘epidemic’. This Major Research Paper (MRP) focuses on how obesity is conceptualized in Canada by analyzing two governmental and one non-government report through use of qualitative content analysis. A critical analysis of these reports will use Labonte’s (1993), supplemented by Raphael, framework of biomedical, behavioural/lifestyle, socio-environmental and critical structural approaches. It explores whether social determinants of health play a role in these reports. And lastly, a political economy approach is used to explore how the Canadian political climate with its neoliberal public policy reforms formulates and influences strategies proposed to ‘treat’ obesity. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/33231 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | The copyright for the paper content remains with the author. | |
| dc.subject | public health | en_US |
| dc.subject | obesity | en_US |
| dc.subject | biomedical | en_US |
| dc.subject | social determinants of health | en_US |
| dc.subject | political economy | en_US |
| dc.title | Let's Talk About 'fat': Conceptualization of Obesity in Canada, the Role of Social Determinants of Health & Neoliberal Policies | en_US |
| dc.type | Major Research Paper |