To make meaningful improvement in the effectiveness of behavioral weight loss interventions for Black women, new approaches are critical. Approaches grounded in Black Feminism and Womanism can provide the essential foundation to generate new knowledge, novel hypotheses, and intervention designs that fully attend to the lived context of Black women, including consideration of the potential health effects of gendered racism.
Keyphrases
- weight loss
- randomized controlled trial
- healthcare
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- bariatric surgery
- systematic review
- roux en y gastric bypass
- public health
- gastric bypass
- pregnancy outcomes
- mental health
- type diabetes
- pregnant women
- adipose tissue
- cervical cancer screening
- risk assessment
- obese patients
- body mass index
- metabolic syndrome
- weight gain
- health promotion