Contents:
- 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
ADDRSG HEALTH CARE DISPARI THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR POPULATN: A REVIEW OF BT PRACTIC
The health re needs of people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) have received signifint attentn om policymakers the last several years. 5% Amerins intify themselv as lbian, gay, or bisexual while 0. The LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr) muny belongs to almost every race, ethnicy, relign, age, and socenomic group.
Keywords: lgbt youth, healthre dispari, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenrIntroductn and backgroundLbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) is an umbrella term which clus a number of groups: lbian (homosexual woman), gay (homosexual man or woman), bisexual (person who is attracted to both genrs), transgenr (person who intifi his genr as different om their blogil one), queer (a synonym for gay; some people prefer to intify themselv as queer to empower themselv and take their inty “back om the bulli”), qutng (people who are unsure about their genr inty/sexualy), tersex (people wh two sets of genalia), asexual (people who are not sexually attracted to anyone and who don’t intify wh any orientatn), alli (the lovg supporters of the muny, though not necsarily part of ), two spirs (a tradn many First Natns that nsirs sexual mori to have both male and female spirs), and pansexual (person sexually attracted to others of any sex or genr) is noteworthy to mentn that the lack of appropriate qutns pertag to genr and sexual inty most natnal or state surveys mak difficult to timate the number of LGBT dividuals and their health re needs.
Figure 1 reflects the statistil valu of the high-risk behavrs LGBT rats for LGBT youth vers heterosexual youth, Dane County Youth Asssment Surveys, Wisns, 2008-2009LGBT: Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr; STI: Sexually transmted fectn.
HEALTH CARE DISPARI AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR YOUTH: A LERATURE REVIEW
A longudal study showed that gay/bisexual boys are more likely to be victimized than heterosexual-intified boys (wave 1: odds rat [OR] = 1. Increased risk of physil health problems, lack of genr/sex-specific health re, and office-based re for LGBT youthThe Center for Disease Control and Preventn data 2014 showed that gay and bisexual men acunted for 83% of the new diagnos of HIV among mal, aged 13 years and olr.