Health care disparities gap in the LGBTQ community

Below articles/websites could be of help:

1. • Colpitts, E., & Gahagan, J. (2016). The utility of resilience as a conceptual framework for understanding and measuring LGBTQ health. International Journal for Equity in Health, 151-8. doi: 10.1186/s12939-016-0349-1.
   • Shattell, M. M., & Chinn, P. L. (2014). Nursing silent on LGBTQ health: Rebel nurses provide hope. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 28(1), 76-77. doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2013.11.002.
   • Mackereth, P., Finchett, C., & Holt, M. (2016). Smoke-free hospital site conversations: how nurses can initiate change. British Journal of Nursing, 25(21), 1176-1180.
   • Emlet, C. A. (2016). Social, economic, and health disparities among LGBT older adults. Generations, 40(2), 16-22.
   • Fielding, J. E., & Teutsch, S. (2017). Social determinants of health: Building wide coalitions around well-honed messages. American Journal of Public Health, 107(6), 870-871. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2017.303794
   • Laverack, G. (2012). Health activism. Health Promotion International, 27(4), 429-434. doi:heapro/das044
2. Explore/View the website(s) below:
   • Healthy People. (2020). Home. https://www.healthypeople.gov/ (Links to an external site.)

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some changes must be made. Stigma in healthcare facilities must end in cooperation with policymakers and social workers to reduce stigma. Society should change and accept LGBT people to make them comfortable enough to come out of their closet. Health care practitioners should be able to deal with their biasness to be comfortable enough to address and provide health care facilities to the LGBT community to help reduce the disparities they face.

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