Nearly two-thirds of this muny sample of gay men was affected by psychiatric morbidy wh new evince for orbidy, subthrhold disorrs, and low levels of awarens of psychiatric disorrs and their treatment. BackgroundSeveral large surveys have suggted high prevalence of psychiatric disorrs among gay men and other men who have sex wh men.MethodsIn 2002, a prehensive health survey was nducted among 571 gay men Geneva, Swzerland, g probabily-based time-space samplg. The Compose Internatnal Diagnostic Interview Short-Form (CIDI-SF) was ed to asss 12-month prevalence of major prsn, specific phobia, social phobia, alhol pennce, and dg pennce.RultsNearly half (43.7%, 95% CI=39.0–48.4) of the sample fulfilled the creria for at least one of the five DSM-IV disorrs: 19.2% had major prsn, 21.9% had specific and/or social phobia, and 16.7% had an alhol and/or dg pennce disorr the past 12 months. Over one quarter of the s were orbid wh another kd of disorr, and 35.7% of s nsulted a health re profsnal the past 12 months for mental health. Like s, screen-posiv for mood and/or anxiety disorrs (24.7%) also reported signifintly greater disabily and lower qualy of life.ConclnsNearly two-thirds of this muny sample of gay men was affected by psychiatric morbidy wh new evince for orbidy, subthrhold disorrs, and low levels of awarens of psychiatric disorrs and their treatment. This populatn needs to be a prry psychiatric epimlogy and mental public health.
Contents:
- GENEVA GAY
- GENEVA GAY: A LEGACY OF ELEVATG MULTICULTURAL TN TO PROMENCE
- HEALTH STAT, BEHAVR, AND RE UTILIZATN THE GENEVA GAY MEN'S HEALTH SURVEY
- HIGH PREVALENCE OF MENTAL DISORRS AND ORBIDY THE GENEVA GAY MEN’S HEALTH STUDY
- ASSSMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICE RINT PREPAREDNS TO CARE FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER/QUTNG PATIENTS
GENEVA GAY
Several large surveys have suggted high prevalence of psychiatric disorrs among gay men and other men who have sex wh men. In 2002, a prehensive h * geneva gay google scholar *
Emer ProfsorGeneva Gay is Profsor of Edutn at the Universy of Washgton-Seattle where she teach multicultural tn and general curriculum theory. Gay's wrgs clu numero articl and book chapters, cludg A Synthis of Scholarship Multicultural Edutn; the -edorship of Exprsively Black: The Cultural Basis of Ethnic Inty (Praeger, 1987); thor of At the Essence of Learng: Multicultural Edutn (Kappa Delta Pi, 1994), and Culturally Rponsive Teachg: Theory, Practice, & Rearch (Teachers College Prs, 2000); and edor of Beg Multicultural Edutors: Personal Journey Toward Profsnal Agency (Jossey-Bass, 2003).
GENEVA GAY: A LEGACY OF ELEVATG MULTICULTURAL TN TO PROMENCE
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When Profsor Geneva Gay began her reer as a high school social studi teacher more than four s ago, the ncept of multicultural tn was still s fancy.
This July, Gay will retire followg a 29-year reer at the Universy of Washgton College of Edutn which her ternatnally-regnized scholarship has advanced the field profound ways — while makg clear the sential role of multicultural tn an creasgly diverse and ternnected world. “When I first started teachg, I was a posn wh my own inty of tryg to overpensate for the notns that society had imposed on Ain-Amerins, ” Gay said. Yet Gay also felt tensn relatnships wh her Black stunts, notg that when she stepped to a “profsnal” role to give the school district le, stunts would ph back.
HEALTH STAT, BEHAVR, AND RE UTILIZATN THE GENEVA GAY MEN'S HEALTH SURVEY
As Gay’s doctoral studi progrsed, she dug eper to why she had been more succsful bondg wh her Black stunts than other, more experienced teachers — even though wasn’t an tentnal strategy on her part. In 1987, Gay eded “Exprsively Black: The Cultural Basis of Ethnic Inty, ” a llectn of says explorg different aspects of the Black cultural experience, cludg chapters on Black style, kship and fay ti, munitn, learship, art, relign, physil exprsivens and cultural ntuatn.
Gay’s first experience at the UW College of Edutn me the summer of 1989, thanks to a visg profsorship arranged by Profsor Emer Jam A. Followg her arrival at the UW, Gay would go on to wre or ed several foundatnal works multicultural tn and the term “culturally rponsive teachg” to fe an approach that emphasiz g the cultural knowledge, prr experienc, am of reference and performance styl of ethnilly diverse stunts to make learng enunters more relevant to and effective for them. In her book, Gay not the child is the meang-maker and that the teacher's rponsibily is to build stctur and create strategi that help all children gather meang om their surroundgs.
In “Culturally Rponsive Teachg: Theory, Rearch, and Practice, ” recipient of the Amerin Associatn of Colleg for Teacher Edutn’s 2001 Outstandg Wrg Award, Gay monstrat that all stunts will perform better on multiple measur of achievement when teachg is filtered through their own cultural experienc. As edor of the 2003 book “Beg Multicultural Edutors: Personal Journey Toward Profsnal Agency, ” Gay offers 14 pellg stori of teachers learng how to work wh stunts om a wi range of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds.
HIGH PREVALENCE OF MENTAL DISORRS AND ORBIDY THE GENEVA GAY MEN’S HEALTH STUDY
Gay scrib herself as a teacher-scholar, wh an emphasis on her role as teacher helpg numero graduate stunts enter the field and make their own unique ntributns. Culturally rponsive teachg means g stunts’ ctoms, characteristics, experience, and perspectiv as tools for better classroom term was ed by rearcher Geneva Gay 2000, who wrote that “when amic knowledge and skills are suated wh the lived experienc and am of reference for stunts, they are more personally meangful, have higher tert appeal, and are learned more easily and thoroughly.
Rights and reviews and studi suggt distctive health needs among gay rints the Geneva Gay Men's Health Survey (GGMHS, n = 477) were matched wh ntrols om the Swiss Health Survey (SHS, n = 477) along sex, age, natnaly, and regn of rince and pared along standard ditors of health stat, health behavrs, and health re utilizatn. Evince of greater morbidy among a muny sample of gay men along standard health ditors unrl the relevance of sexual orientatn as a soc-mographic ditor public health general and the health equali disurse particular.
ASSSMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICE RINT PREPAREDNS TO CARE FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER/QUTNG PATIENTS
IntroductnThe foc of public health efforts among gay men the past 20 years has been domated by the HIV/AIDS epimic, yet recent reviews of health issu relevant to gay men, lbians, bisexual men and women, and transgenr people (GLBT) released on three ntents (Dean et al., 2000, Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn and LGBT health experts, 2001, Ryan and Cherv, 2001, Misterial Advisory Commtee on Gay and Lbian Health, 2002, Douglas Stt et al., 2004) suggt higher morbidy sexual health (e. Yet while GLBT are gag regnn as a “muny” for targeted public health polici, the evince basis is poor (Sell and Becker, 2001, Boehmer, 2002), leadg the Amerin Public Health Associatn (APHA) to pass a rolutn llg for more rearch on the relatnship between disease and sexual orientatn (1999) Geneva Gay Men's Health Survey (GGMHS) was a prehensive health survey – i. In orr to explore the possible existence of distctive health needs, this paper prents a parison between a muny sample of gay men and matched general populatn ntrols along key health ditors.
Sectn snippetsSampleThe Geneva Gay Men's Health Survey (GGMHS) was a cross-sectnal venue-based probabily survey g time-space samplg veloped by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) (MacKellar et al., 1996, Stueve et al., 2001).