healthism

English

Etymology

health +‎ -ism

Noun

healthism (uncountable)

1. The use of propaganda and coercion (as by government or advertising) to impose established norms of health.
   • 1997 September 15, David Brooks, “The Rise of the Latte Town”, in Washington Examiner‎^[1]:

     The locals are not much restrained by the old puritanical or Protestant code. Instead, they have constructed their own ethos of environmentalism, healthism, and egalitarianism that makes it bad form to spend money lavishly or live ostentatiously.

2. (uncommon, derogatory) An excessive preoccupation with one's health.
3. (uncommon, derogatory) Discrimination on the basis of one's health status.

Derived terms

• healthist