Transgender Health Issues

• Author : Sarah Boslaugh
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release Date : 2018-08-03
• Total pages : 203
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : Transgender individuals face unique challenges when it comes to their physical, psychological, and social health and well-being. This accessible reference investigates these concerns in depth, offering readers insights into topics such as discrimination and access to health care. • Confronts a topic that has historically been ignored by researchers and public ...

• Author : Jay Harcourt
• Publisher : Haworth Press
• Release Date : 2006
• Total pages : 206
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : Learn what resources are needed for lesser-recognized LGBT health issues Most literature that explores LGBT health issues concentrates on HIV/AIDS while leaving research studies on other vital issues lacking. Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health addresses this inadequacy by presenting a broad range of LGBT health ...

• Author : Walter O. Bockting,Daniel Mcgee,Joshua Goldberg
• Publisher : Informa Health Care
• Release Date : 2007-08-20
• Total pages : 150
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : Get the tools to effectively meet the needs of transgender people in your community Guidelines for Transgender Care is a one-of-a-kind guidebook for training practitioners to meet the healthcare and social services needs of transgender people in their community. Based on a collaboration between community-based health professionals in British Columbia ...

• Author : American Public Health Association
• Publisher : Amer Public Health Assn
• Release Date : 2001
• Total pages : 193
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : Papers from medical and social service professionals covering an array of health topics of interest to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community in the United States....

• Author : Harvey J. Makadon,Kenneth Mayer
• Publisher : ACP Press
• Release Date : 2008
• Total pages : 526
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : The Fenway Guide provides guidance, practical guidelines, and discussions of clinical issues pertinent to the LGBT patient and community. It also focuses on helping healthcare professionals gain a better understanding of the LGBT population, the LGBT life continuum, health promotion and disease prevention, transgender health, and patient communication and the ...

• Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities
• Publisher : National Academies Press
• Release Date : 2011-06-24
• Total pages : 366
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : At a time when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals--often referred to under the umbrella acronym LGBT--are becoming more visible in society and more socially acknowledged, clinicians and researchers are faced with incomplete information about their health status. While LGBT populations often are combined as a single entity for research ...

• Author : Jami K. Taylor,Donald P. Haider-Markel,Daniel C. Lewis
• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
• Release Date : 2018-10-22
• Total pages : 439
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : While medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a “collective political identity” is a recent construct. Over the past twenty-five years, the transgender movement has gained statutory nondiscrimination protections at the state and local levels, hate crimes protections in a number ...

• Author : Randi Ettner,Stan Monstrey,Eli Coleman
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2013-02-01
• Total pages : 388
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : A comprehensive and important text for health care professionals Gender variance is widely misunderstood, and few medical texts examine the social, legal, emotional, historical, biological, and economic issues involved. Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery provides medical and health care guidelines and comprehensive information on all aspects of treatment of ...

• Author : Gianna E. Israel,Donald E. Tarver
• Publisher : Temple University Press
• Release Date : 2001-03
• Total pages : 282
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : By empowering clients to be well-informed medical consumers and by delivering care providers from the straitjacket of inadequate diagnostic standards and stereotypes, this book sets out to transform the nature of transgender care. In an accessible style, the authors discuss the key mental health issues, with much attention to the ...

• Author : Carlos A. Ball
• Publisher : NYU Press
• Release Date : 2019-05-01
• Total pages : 368
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : What does marriage equality mean for the future of LGBT rights? In persuading the Supreme Court that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, the LGBT rights movement has achieved its most important objective of the last few decades. Throughout its history, the marriage equality movement has been criticized ...

• Author : Bethan Machado
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2017
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : Background/introduction: Locally there is a large transgender (trans) population. As part of a health inequalities initiative in 2012 a bespoke sexual health service for trans patients (Clinic-T) was set up. This included HCP training. Aim(s)/objectives: To evaluate the current service relating to care and management of trans patients ...

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2001
• Total pages : 51
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : Read online Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Social Work written by , published by which was released on 2001. Download full Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Social Work Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Walter Pierre Bouman,Jon Arcelus
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2018
• Total pages : 389
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : This handbook is written for transgender people, their families and friends; for professionals who in their day-to-day job may encounter transgender people; and for students, teachers, educators, academics, and members of the public at large with an interest in transgender people. This handbook gives an in-depth overview on a wide ...

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2005
• Total pages : 103
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : Describes current issues, research, and policies, and seeks to assist institutions of higher education in their search for ways to support and foster the success of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender college students, and to nurture LGBT faculty and staff....

• Author : Susan Meyer
• Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
• Release Date : 2016-12-15
• Total pages : 64
• ISBN : 1440858888

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Summary : This book explores the health issues encountered by transgender people, including mental and emotional health, gender dysphoria, hormone replacement therapy (including puberty-blocking hormones), gender affirmation surgery, and more. Also covered are the pros and cons of hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery as well as barriers to health care that ...