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The key for physicians is getting to know your patients as people.”
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“All people are unique and need to be treated in a person-centered, tailored way. Until the past few years, none of the major national health surveys collected sexual orientation or gender identity data, and health systems haven’t had intake forms or electronic records that track sexual or gender minority patients. The daunting task of addressing the problem is magnified by the limited data available for researchers to analyze, use to assess clinical outcomes, or drive clinical improvements.
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“It’s the result of various social determinants of health, of stigma, and of medical practice not being oriented toward including sexual and gender minority people. “There’s no biological reason that minority people should be in worse health,” says Alex Keuroghlian, an HMS assistant professor of psychiatry, part-time, at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an active participant in efforts to build LGBTQ health equity in Boston, across the United States, and around the globe. In adulthood, lesbians have a higher risk of obesity and breast cancer, and gay men face an increased risk of prostate, testicular, anal, and colon cancer. Across the nation, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth have an elevated risk of bullying, suicide, and substance use disorder and lack access to culturally sensitive and clinically specific LGBT health care, according to a 2017 review of the literature published in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science. This designation served as a notification that the NIH recognized the health inequities affecting the LGBTQ community-and the need to address them. Pérez-Stable, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, announcing that the National Institutes of Health was designating “sexual and gender minorities” as a disparities population. These findings were highlighted in a 2016 statement by Eliseo J. The stress of living in an environment marked by stigma and structural discrimination can result in early deaths from suicide, from an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and from a cascade of other life-shortening health conditions. That’s the average number of years of life prematurely taken from LGBTQ individuals who live in communities that harbor strong prejudices against members of sexual and gender minorities.