{"id":3317,"date":"2025-04-13T16:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T20:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedwaysem.org\/?post_type=equity&p=3317"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:49:26","slug":"2024-day-15","status":"publish","type":"equity","link":"https:\/\/unitedwaysem.org\/es\/equity-challenge-days\/2024-day-15\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00eda 15: Sesgo de peso y gordofobia en la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica"},"template":"","class_list":["post-3317","equity","type-equity","status-publish","hentry","equity-year-271"],"acf":{"details":{"equity_year":271,"day_number":15,"availability_date":"20240606"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_quote_hero","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_quote_hero":{"kicker_text":"2024 Equity Challenge","heading":"Day 15: Weight Bias & Anti-Fatness in Health Care","summary":"","cta":{"title":"Listen","url":"https:\/\/unitedwaysem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Equity-Challenge-Day-15.mp3","target":""},"quote":"I threw my back out three and a half years ago and I was in excruciating pain and the physician just looked at my chart and said, \u2018Just take a couple of Tylenol.\u2019 Doctors deny fat patients\u2019 pain or minimize their pain or deny them pain management treatment because some doctors believe that some bodies \u2014 namely fat bodies \u2014 deserve the pain they\u2019re in.","attribution":"Sonya Renee Taylor","source":"Activist, author and founder of The Body Is Not An Apology movement"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Nota sobre el lenguaje contra la gordura<\/strong>En United Way fomentamos el di\u00e1logo y damos prioridad a las voces de las personas m\u00e1s relacionadas con el lenguaje que utilizamos. Nuestro equipo de Diversidad, Equidad e Inclusi\u00f3n utiliza los t\u00e9rminos \u00abantigrasa\u00bb y \u00abgordofobia\u00bb para describir el sistema de opresi\u00f3n que afecta a las personas con cuerpos m\u00e1s grandes en este art\u00edculo y en el desaf\u00edo debido a nuestros propios di\u00e1logos internos, en los que nuestro personal y nuestra comunidad expresaron la importancia de respetar las m\u00faltiples formas en que cada persona tiene su propio lenguaje para expresarse.<\/em>\r\n\r\nLa lucha contra la obesidad est\u00e1 profundamente arraigada en nuestra cultura y, por lo tanto, en todos nosotros, independientemente del tama\u00f1o de nuestro cuerpo o de nuestra profesi\u00f3n. Estas creencias internalizadas se denominan prejuicios, y usted puede\u00a0Obtenga m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n al respecto aqu\u00ed, en el desaf\u00edo del a\u00f1o pasado.<\/a>.\r\n\r\nAccording to the Boston Medical Center, \u201cGordofobia<\/a>, also known as anti-fat, is the implicit and explicit bias of overweight individuals that is rooted in a sense of blame and presumed moral failing. Being overweight and\/or fat is highly stigmatized in Western culture. Anti-fatness is intrinsically linked to anti-Blackness, racism, classism, misogyny and many other systems of oppression.\u201d\r\n\r\nWeight discrimination in health care is\u00a0Se denuncia con una frecuencia comparable al racismo y es uno de los \u00faltimos tipos de discriminaci\u00f3n que a\u00fan toleran y practican los expertos en salud p\u00fablica y medicina.<\/a>. De hecho, la discriminaci\u00f3n contra las personas con sobrepeso tiene sus ra\u00edces en el racismo. Hist\u00f3ricamente, el sobrepeso se celebraba como una representaci\u00f3n del estatus social: tener sobrepeso significaba que usted era lo suficientemente rico como para permitirse el privilegio de comer bien. Sin embargo,\u00a0Esto comenz\u00f3 a cambiar con el auge de la eugenesia.<\/a>\u00a0y cient\u00edficos que se centraban en las diferencias entre razas. Este sistema de valorar unos cuerpos por encima de otros para justificar comportamientos opresivos se denomina \u00abterrorismo corporal\u00bb y usted puede\u00a0M\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n aqu\u00ed.<\/a>\u00a0from last year\u2019s Equity Challenge.\r\n\r\nDuring the period of enslavement in America and with access to new food resources, including sugar, Black bodies began to look like the voluptuous white bodies that had been depicted in art and culture for years. Because of this, race scientists began to draw\u00a0v\u00ednculos directos entre la glotoner\u00eda, la estupidez y las caracter\u00edsticas de los africanos<\/a>, which began drastically changing the way large bodies were viewed in society.\r\n\r\nAnti-fatness also\u00a0afecta el acceso de una persona a una atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica adecuada por varias razones, entre ellas:<\/a>:\r\n