Applying an Intersectional Perspective to Obesity Prevention: A Critical Matrix

Introduction The obesity rate increases globally. Preventive public health interventions are a prominent way of tackling its challenges. However, aspects of diversity are rarely considered in these interventions. In particular, this holds for intersections of categories such as age, gender, class, and ethnicity. Methods We will systematically epitomize previous communicative attempts to prevent high body weight by using (a) content analysis methods and (b) intersectionality as method to detect possible multidimensional discriminations. Results Weight communication is often expert-driven, detached from the experi…