Rethinking Obesity Care: A Guide for Primary Healthcare Consultations
This resource has been co-produced with healthcare professionals and people with lived experience of obesity and/or weight-related medical gaslighting to rethink how we care for people experiencing obesity.
The guide is designed as a practical tool to facilitate conversations about obesity in primary care by moving beyond a sole focus on weight and towards a broader understanding of health and wellbeing.
Obesity Health Justice in Practice: Learnings from Community Healing Circles
This report documents the development and learnings from the Community Healing Circles, part of Centric Lab’s wider Obesity Health Justice programme. It describes how the approach emerged, how the sessions were designed and facilitated, and what themes and insights arose from them. Drawing on participant feedback as well as facilitator reflections, it captures the early impact of this work and considers how the model can inform future community-led approaches to obesity health justice.
Why Language Matters for Health Justice
The words we choose influence how people experience care, how funding is directed, and whether people feel safe to seek support. While there are arguments for describing obesity as a disease, we have found that the term “condition” better supports our focus on inclusion and health justice.
Dissemination and Impact of The Peoples’ Obesity Health Justice Pamphlet
This document provides an overview of how the pamphlet has been disseminated to date, and summarises the key themes emerging from feedback from the community.
Healing, Not Thinning: Part Two
This second report builds on last year’s pilot on micro-healing grants. One year on, we returned to the same participants — B, R, and L — to understand what had changed and/or evolved.
The Peoples’ Obesity Justice Pamphlet
As a first step towards obesity health justice, we have created The People’s Obesity Pamphlet, a resource for the people, by the people. This is a tool for harm reduction and the promotion of autonomy for people who are experiencing obesity.
Towards Obesity Health Justice
This work aims to demonstrate the harm of the dominant, individualised, narrative of obesity. We present an alternative understanding that views obesity through a neuro-epidemiological, environmental and sociopolitical lens. This serves as an avenue for people who are experiencing obesity to understand their disease and explore potential methods of self-care, self-advocacy and safeguarding.
The Making of “The Peoples’ Obesity Justice Pamphlet”
Here we provide a brief overview of the creation of “The People’s Obesity Justice Pamphlet”.
Healing, Not Thinning
Exploring the Potential of Micro-Grants as a Pathway to Healing and Health Justice for People Living with Obesity
Obesity Health Justice Pamphlet Launch Event
On 11th July the cohort behind the co-designed Obesity Justice Pamphlet held an evening event with a select group to share insights, learnings, and aims of the Pamphlet. These are the 3 presentations in audio format that took place.