Public health education increasingly emphasizes the link of personal lifestyle with cancer risk, which may result in unintended negative social effects such as triggering stigma and/or blame towards cancer patients when their illness is perceived to be caused by personal behaviours or disapproved lifestyles.
Among these interventions was the EU funded and UNICEF "Be fair for a childhood without barriers" campaign that triggered discussion about stigma towards people with disabilities.
Feelings of social stigma triggered by HIV were associated with fear and anxiety in 11 out of the 15 interviewees despite a degree of self-reported adjustment to living with HIV.
Furthermore, since anther dehiscence is not completed at the time of anthesis while the pistil is already fully receptive, this reduces the risk of self-pollen landing on the stigma that could trigger a self-incompatible response.
Internationally, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination, triggered at least in part by growing recognition that negative social responses to the epidemic remain pervasive even in seriously affected communities.
Re "An Emotional Hair Trigger, Often Misread" (Personal Health, June 16): The stigma surrounding borderline personality disorder is such that even an article in Science Times can state baldly that people with the disorder "act like 2-year-olds".
Back in May, the Education from the Inside Out Coalition, which I co-founded, stood in front of the SUNY Board of trustees and described the stigma and pre-emptive trigger of failure the box represents.
In agreement with findings that suggest that past negative experiences are easily triggered [ 23], our findings showed that fear of stigma and discrimination in the podoconiosis community was triggered by the idea of the proposed genetic research.
Their flowers have two stamens that are attached to the style, with the anthers near the stigma, and the whole complex triggers the explosive release of pollen on visiting insects.
The word mental has a stigma attached to it that can immediately trigger scenes from horror movies, school shootings and epic celebrity breakdowns like Charlie Sheen, Britney Spears, Amanda Bynes or Lindsey Lohan.
