Healthism

Roberts, Jessica L.; Weeks, Elizabeth

doi:10.1017/9781316675601

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“…The employment discrimination provisions of the ADA were enacted to eliminate and redress pervasive discrimination against individuals with substantially limiting impairments. They were not enacted to prohibit any adverse treatment based on an individual’s health status; 53 more comprehensive legislation banning all health-based discrimination undoubtedly would not have been enacted. 54 From a cost perspective, it is illogical to prohibit discrimination against individuals who require ongoing reasonable accommodation while permitting discrimination against individuals who have a temporary health condition that will last only a few days.…”

Section: Future Risk Of Illness Under the Ada And Ginamentioning

confidence: 99%

Predictive Health Information and Employment Discrimination under the ADA and GINA

Rothstein¹

2020

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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Section: Future Risk Of Illness Under the Ada And Ginamentioning

confidence: 99%

Predictive Health Information and Employment Discrimination under the ADA and GINA

Rothstein¹

2020

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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“…Health justice promotes the fair distribution of health-related resources and opportunities. 78 A health law or policy offends health justice when it produces worse health outcomes or creates or perpetuates health disparities. An intervention that stigmatizes certain health statuses -intentionally or not -could actually make people worse off, especially when those individuals are already vulnerable.…”

Section: B Health Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Stigmatizing the Unhealthy

Roberts¹,

Weeks²

2017

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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Stigma can lead to poor health outcomes. At the same time, people who are perceived as unhealthy may experience stigma as the result of that perception. As part of a larger project examining discrimination on the basis of health status or “healthism,” we explore the role of stigma in producing disadvantage based on health status. Specifically, we look to the principles of health equality and health justice. An intervention violates health equality when it is driven by animus, which can be the result of stigma. Additionally, laws and policies offend health justice when they worsen health outcomes or they create or deepen health disparities. An intervention that produces stigma — whether intentionally or unintentionally — may offend health justice by making people worse off, in absolute or in comparative terms. Stigma-related health laws and policies can therefore be healthist in at least two ways. We therefore conclude that stigma should neither be the basis, nor the product, of efforts to improve health.

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