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

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1086/64
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Persona (resp. second.): HarveyVickie L. <1956->; HouselTeresa Heinz <1972->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Health care disparities and the LGBT population
• ISBN: 1498536050; 0739187031
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827346303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II