“preoccupation with personal health as a primary—often the primary—focus for the definition and achievement of well-being. [. . .] By elevating health to a super value, a metaphor for all that is good in life, healthism reinforces the privatization of the struggle for generalized well-being.”9 That is, healthism as a framework often disregards the influence of social determinants of health, institutional policies, and oppression on individual health.
