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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827346303321

Titolo

Health care disparities and the LGBT population / / edited by Vickie L. Harvey and Teresa Heinz Housel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1498536050

0739187031

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

362.1086/64

Soggetti

Gay people - Medical care - United States

Bisexual people - Medical care - United States

Transgender people - Medical care - United States

Health services accessibility - United States

Discrimination in medical care - United States

Health care for LGBTQ people

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword: Gary L. Kreps; Foreword: Allan D. Peterkin; Part I. CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY BY COMING OUT TO YOUR PHYSICIAN; Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Loosely Knit Patchwork of LGBT Health Care; Chapter 2. The Importance of Sexual Orientation Disclosure to Physicians for Women Who Have Sex with Women; Chapter 3. Coming Out Conversations and Gay/Bisexual Men's Sexual Health; Chapter 4. Shaping Self with the Doctor: The Construction of Identity for Trans Patients; Chapter 5. Health Insurance Coverage for Same-Sex Couples: Disparities and Trends under DOMA

Chapter 6. Carving Triangles into Squares: The Effects of LGBTQ-Stigma-Related Stressors during Youth, Adulthood, and AgingChapter 7. Reproductive Physicians' Treatment of Lesbian Patients in Germany and the United States; Chapter 8. Limiting Transgender Health: Administrative Violence and Microaggressions in Health Care Systems; Chapter 9. Women's Health, Health Care Service Utilization, and Experience of Intimate Partner Violence in the United States; Chapter



10. Political Activism as a Heath-Giving Activity: Transforming Silence into Language and Action; Appendix A; Appendix B

BibliographyIndex; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This edited volume fills an important gap in health communication, exploring the significant disparities in access to health care and health coverage that LGBT individuals and their families face. With cutting-edge empirical research, the essays examine the social and structural factors that lead to the stigma and discrimination that LGBT populations experience.