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TDr. Linda Maepa

@lmaepa.medsky.network
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Sangoma, IFS/IFIO therapist, farmer, educator Bapedi 🐊 & emaSwati 🙏🏾📿 I study & teach: African healthcare systems, Internal Family Systems therapy, African Traditional Medicine, Biogeosciences, Planetary Health Me: @GogoPebetse.org, lmaepa.blacksky.app

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
How worried should we be about the absence of CIP Code 51.2201 (MPH & DPH degrees) from the Department of Education's revised list?
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 29/06/2026
Obligatory share of my 1st longform reported story, which connects food apartheid to disordered eating patterns in BIPOC LGBTQIA+ communities, which includes interviews with Professor Sabrina Strings, Professor Tara Maudrie, Karen Washington, Patrilie Hernandez, etc: prismreports.org/2023/09/13/b...
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BIPOC LGBTQIA+ communities deserve care for eating disorders
Activists, researchers, and theorists weigh in on this pressing issue
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TDr. Linda Maepa @lmaepa.medsky.network · 08/06/2026
Close up of a @richferro.com doodl3 that is a circle surrounded by a circle with four posts equidistant apart.
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TDr. Linda Maepa @lmaepa.medsky.network · 08/06/2026
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Deadly Stigma.

Manasvini Singh.

WORKING PAPER 35277.
DOI: 10.3386/w35277.
ISSUE DATE May 2026.

How harmful is stigma in the "real world"? Answers are elusive because stigma is difficult to measure in observational data, and isolating its effects requires exogenous variation in stigma without variation in the stigmatized trait. This study addresses these challenges by focusing on a widespread form of stigma - weight stigma - in the high-stakes setting of inpatient healthcare BMI categories are displayed prominently to providers in electronic medical records, and obesity is heavily stigmatized socially. Thus, at the "obese" cutoff, stigma may shift discretely while the underlying trait (BMI) does not. Using a regression discontinuity design that exploits this institutional feature,I find a discontinuous increase in in-hospital mortality at this cutoff, though patient health does not change. Two patterns suggest stigma-based discrimination as the mechanism. First, just-obese patients receive less diagnostic effort than almost-obese patients. Second, a physician-validated LLM identifies at the cutoff a rise in stigmatizing language in clinical notes - specifically, language that imposes moral judgment, undermines patient credibility, and stereotypes patients -- among the most stigmatizing providers, who also drive the mortality result. Overall, these results suggest that stigma is a powerful social force with potentially life-or-death consequences.
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TDr. Linda Maepa @lmaepa.medsky.network · 08/06/2026
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Deadly Stigma.

Manasvini Singh.

WORKING PAPER 35277.
DOI: 10.3386/w35277.
ISSUE DATE May 2026.

How harmful is stigma in the "real world"? Answers are elusive because stigma is difficult to measure in observational data, and isolating its effects requires exogenous variation in stigma without variation in the stigmatized trait. This study addresses these challenges by focusing on a widespread form of stigma - weight stigma - in the high-stakes setting of inpatient healthcare BMI categories are displayed prominently to providers in electronic medical records, and obesity is heavily stigmatized socially. Thus, at the "obese" cutoff, stigma may shift discretely while the underlying trait (BMI) does not. Using a regression discontinuity design that exploits this institutional feature,I find a discontinuous increase in in-hospital mortality at this cutoff, though patient health does not change. Two patterns suggest stigma-based discrimination as the mechanism. First, just-obese patients receive less diagnostic effort than almost-obese patients. Second, a physician-validated LLM identifies at the cutoff a rise in stigmatizing language in clinical notes - specifically, language that imposes moral judgment, undermines patient credibility, and stereotypes patients -- among the most stigmatizing providers, who also drive the mortality result. Overall, these results suggest that stigma is a powerful social force with potentially life-or-death consequences.
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TDr. Linda Maepa @lmaepa.medsky.network · 08/06/2026
Restored first half of quote: I hypothesize that formal BMI cutoffs produce discontinuous increases in provider stigma at the obesity threshold without a corresponding discontinuous change in underlying health status.
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TDr. Linda Maepa @lmaepa.medsky.network · 08/06/2026
"I hypothesize that formal BMI cutoffs produce discontinuous increases in provider stigma...This, in turn, may lead to discontinuous changes in provider behavior and patient outcomes. This paper presents a body of evidence supporting this hypothesis." Adapted from @vinisingh.bsky.social
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/05/2026
Funding pledges for Ebola outbreak almost halved, Africa CDC says reut.rs/3Rs8cN4
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Funding pledges for Ebola outbreak almost halved, Africa CDC says
Funding pledges to contain the fast-growing Ebola outbreak in Africa have almost halved since Monday, the continent's main health body said on Thursday.
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TDr. Linda Maepa @lmaepa.medsky.network · 28/05/2026
Full issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17520606...
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