Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Health | CDC

Contents:

• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
• ADDRSG HEALTH CARE DISPARI THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR POPULATN: A REVIEW OF BT PRACTIC
• HEALTH CARE DISPARI AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR YOUTH: A LERATURE REVIEW
• HEALTH RE PROBLEMS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PATIENTS

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

Chan School of Public Health, volv gatherg more data to help intify specific health needs of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) populatn, along wh tg health profsnals so they better unrstand that there are differenc re needs, and that ignorg them n do damage. AMA Journal of Ethics is the AMA's onle ethics journal, and s vast talog ntas many articl on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr health and ethics medice.

"The Health of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr People" clus rearch and ttimony om fluential anizatns LGBTQ health on the followg topics:. In the Uned Stat, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men (MSM) are most affected by the human immunoficiency vis (HIV). Adolcent and adult gay and bisexual men ma up 68% of new HIV diagnos the Uned Stat 2018.

Gay, bisexual, and MSM are 20 tim more likely than heterosexual men to velop anal ncer. Rearch has found that people who intify as lbian or gay are more than twice as likely as people who intify as heterosexual to abe alhol or tobac. The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), which helps diagnose mental health ndns, listed "homosexualy" as a disorr until 1973.

ADDRSG HEALTH CARE DISPARI THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR POPULATN: A REVIEW OF BT PRACTIC

"In parison to their straight peers, LGBTQ+ dividuals experience unique strsors such as bullyg, harassment, fear of rejectn, ternalized homophobia, body image distrs, barriers to accsg medil and mental health treatment, and vlence, " Sydney Brour-Johnson, PhD, senr director for clil servic at the Veras Collaborative Dunwoody, Ga., told Health.

Rearch has found that lbian, gay, and bisexual adults have a higher risk of heart disease and other rdiac problems than others.

Lbian, gay, and bisexual adults may be more likely to smoke and have poorly ntrolled blood sugar, both of which ntribute to heart disease.

HEALTH CARE DISPARI AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR YOUTH: A LERATURE REVIEW

"GLMA: Health Profsnals Advancg LGBTQ+ Equaly [prevly known as the Gay & Lbian Medil Associatn] matas an LGBTQ+ clive provir directory. The health re needs of people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) have received signifint attentn om policymakers the last several years. Je Meda-Martínez, 1 Carlos Ss-Ortega, 1, 2, * María Montserrat Sánchez-Lorente, 1, 2 Eva María Sosa-Palan, 1, 2 Pedro García-Martínez, 1, 2 and María Isabel Mármol-López1, 2Igor Grabovac, Amic EdorAbstractBackground: Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people prent poorer mental and physil health rults pared to the heterosexual and cisgenr populatn.

IntroductnLGBT is an ialism that refers to the llective of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people.

Other ialisms such as LGBTIAQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, asexual, aromantic, and queer people) or LGBT+ are also often ed to explicly clu other groups; however, the acronym LGBT will be ed this article bee s e is most wispread worldwi.

HEALTH RE PROBLEMS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PATIENTS

The term lbian refers to women who only feel sexual-affective attractn to other women, gay refers to men who only feel sexual-affective attractn to other men, and bisexual refers to people who feel sexual-affective attractn to people of the same or different genrs to themselv.

In gay and bisexual men, higher rat of transmissn of the human immunoficiency vis (HIV), viral hepatis, and other sexually transmted fectns (STIs); anal, prostate, tticle, and lon ncers; and body image and eatg disorrs have been scribed [10, 11, 12].