This post includes various LGBT+ online resources with a focus on health-related resources. If you know of others, please, drop me a note in comments.
Intersex Society of North America
Information and resources on intersexuality
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Legal resources related to gender identity and presentation
Out2Enroll
Information and resources related to accessing/utilizing health insurance marketplaces as a gender and/or sexual minority person
To Treat Me, You Have to Know Who I Am
A video in which people explain the importance of health providers knowing their patients' sexual orientation and gender identity.
Asking Patients Questions about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Clinical Settings
Guidelines on engaging with patients around sexual orientation and gender identity.
The National LGBT Health Education Center
A site with educational trainings and other resources to help health providers improve their cultural and clinical competence in caring for patients who are gender and/or sexual minorities.
LGBT Patient-Centered Outcomes
Findings from a study of LGBT survivors of cancer and recommendations for cancer care based upon the results.
LGBT People in US Spend $7.9 Billion Per Year on Cigarettes
An article discussing the severity of smoking as a health risk for the LGBT community
Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Risk Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9--12 --- Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, Selected Sites, United States, 2001--2009
While the risks noted in this CDC report are sobering and troublesome, it is worth noting that one protective factor was identified: self-identifying LGBT survey respondents also reported improved diet with regard to intake of fruits and vegetables compared to their heterosexual and cisgender peers.
Cancer's Margins
Explores the experiences of gender- and sexually diverse people with breast and gynecological cancers.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Monday, November 4, 2013
Blog #3, yay!
Not that I've been keeping up with my existing blogs particularly well. My bentos have been few and far between and frankly, I'm just up to my eyeballs in research.
It was recently suggested to me that one of the original uses for a blog was to collect and organize research and informational resources. One of my preferred methods of building up the background literature for a research paper has always been the annotated bibliography (because how the heck else am I going to remember which thing was in which article by the time I've read 10, 20, 50 on variations of the same topic?). While I'm hardly going to put my actual research project out into the wilds until it's, well, done, I am also of the "can't stop the signal" school of thought when it comes to making information easily available and accessible. Thus begins this blog, or at least the basics of it.
My thought is that I'm going to go through the assorted articles I've been compiling on the subject of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health and health disparities, which are already at least broadly collected in categories, and write entries that give the citation info and what I think is particularly useful or noteworthy about each article, chapter, book, etc. The citations will be in APA format, since that's what we nurses tend to use. The descriptions will probably be a bit less formal, partly so that the usefulness is clear to non-academic types who may stumble across these entries.
This is, of course, assuming that I'm not actually biting off more than I can chew. I'm viewing this as something that will help me organize all of this information more effectively, but that may turn out not to be the case. We shall see.
It was recently suggested to me that one of the original uses for a blog was to collect and organize research and informational resources. One of my preferred methods of building up the background literature for a research paper has always been the annotated bibliography (because how the heck else am I going to remember which thing was in which article by the time I've read 10, 20, 50 on variations of the same topic?). While I'm hardly going to put my actual research project out into the wilds until it's, well, done, I am also of the "can't stop the signal" school of thought when it comes to making information easily available and accessible. Thus begins this blog, or at least the basics of it.
My thought is that I'm going to go through the assorted articles I've been compiling on the subject of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health and health disparities, which are already at least broadly collected in categories, and write entries that give the citation info and what I think is particularly useful or noteworthy about each article, chapter, book, etc. The citations will be in APA format, since that's what we nurses tend to use. The descriptions will probably be a bit less formal, partly so that the usefulness is clear to non-academic types who may stumble across these entries.
This is, of course, assuming that I'm not actually biting off more than I can chew. I'm viewing this as something that will help me organize all of this information more effectively, but that may turn out not to be the case. We shall see.
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