LGBTQ Health |
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SPH This Week | Special Edition
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June is Pride Month. While Pride events are postponed or moved online because of COVID-19, we are dedicating this issue of SPHTW to the health of LGBTQ populations. |
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Message from the Associate Dean for Public Health Practice |
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Upcoming Signature Program |
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JUN 3 |
5 p.m.–6 p.m. |
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Online |
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COVID-19 and the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd reflect how communities of color face poorer health as a consequence of fundamental injustice. |
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Professor Wins Early Career Investigator Award
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Kimberly Nelson, associate professor of community health sciences, received the award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine for her behavioral research on sexual and racial/ethnic minority youth. |
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Lifesaving Protections
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Suicidality dropped by as much as half among gender minority patients in states that enacted nondiscrimination rules for private health insurance. |
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Counting Trans Health
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Transgender-specific screening guidelines would help ensure that trans people have the same chance at early, life-saving treatment as the rest of the population. |
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Restoring LGBTQ Health
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Following passage of Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act in March of 2015, nearly 60 percent of LGBTQ people reported poor health, compared to 20 percent of heterosexual people in the state. |
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LGBTQ Health News, Research, Viewpoints, and Interviews |
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