Explore LGBTQIA+ Health Disparities eBooks
Below are selected eBooks from the library on understanding LGBTQIA+ disparities and achieving equity in healthcare.
Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health by ISBN: 9781629637846Publication Date: 2020At a galvanizing moment when LGBTQIA+ people have experienced great strides in lived equality but health as a community still lags, here is an indispensable blueprint for change by some of the most passionate and important health activists in the LGBTQIA+ movement today.
Clinician's Guide to LGBTQIA+ Care: Cultural Safety and Social Justice in Primary, Sexual, and Reproductive Healthcare by ISBN: 9780826169150Publication Date: 2021This book provides a framework for delivering culturally safe clinical care to LGBTQIA+ populations filtered through the lens of racial, economic, and reproductive justice.
Fast Facts about LGBTQ+ Care for Nurses: How to Deliver Culturally Competent and Inclusive Care by ISBN: 9780826161512Publication Date: 2022This book focuses on the unique health needs and inequities affecting LGBTQ+ patients and discusses how to provide them with safe, respectful, and holistic care.
The GLMA Handbook on LGBT Health by ISBN: 9780313395659Publication Date: 2019This two-volume handbook addresses physical, mental, and emotional health, as well as policy decisions affecting the LGBT community from youth through old age. Volume One is devoted to overall health of the population and preventive care, while Volume Two examines disease management.
A Guide to Transgender Health: State-of-the-Art Information for Gender-Affirming People and Their Supporters by ISBN: 9781440863080Publication Date: 2019This book provides the most up-to-date information on transgender science and its applications for gender-diverse people, their supporters, and the professionals who assist them to lead healthy, happy, and successful lives.
LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual and Gender Diversity What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual and Gender Diversity by ISBN: 9781496394606Publication Date: 2018This book paves the way for healthcare professionals to provide well-informed, culturally sensitive healthcare to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) patients.
LGBTQ Health Research: Theory, Methods, Practice by ISBN: 9781421438788Publication Date: 2020This book focuses on the growing field of LGBTQ health research, providing the necessary public health tools to teach about and study LGBTQ populations effectively.
Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary People with Disabilities or Illnesses: A Good Practice Guide for Health and Care Provision by ISBN: 9781785925412Publication Date: 2019By drawing on the experience of trans people who are affected by physical disability, chronic illness, and mental illness, this book is the definitive guide on providing best practice in approaches to health and care policy.
Explore Gender Health Disparities eBooks
Below are selected eBooks from the library on understanding gender disparities and achieving equity in healthcare.
Health and Gender: Resilience and Vulnerability Factors for Women's Health in the Contemporary Society by ISBN: 9783030150372Publication Date: 2019This book presents a concise overview of the most important protective and risk factors for women's health, and reviews the main areas of medical science from a gender perspective.
Improving Women's Health Across the Lifespan by ISBN: 9780367627638Publication Date: 2021This book provides information about lifestyle interventions to improve gynecologic and sexual health and to manage and sometimes reverse gynecologic diseases.
Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System by ISBN: 9780190840204Publication Date: 2019This book expands our understanding of how Black middle-class women are treated when they go to the doctor, why they continue to face inequities in securing proper medical care, and what strategies they use to fight for the best treatment.
Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics by ISBN: 9780520307445Publication Date: 2021The author investigates how birth control becomes a fundamentally unbalanced and gendered responsibility. She uncovers how parents, peers, partners, and providers draw on narratives of male and female birth control methods to socialize cisgender women into sex and ultimately into shouldering the burden for preventing pregnancy.
Medical Sexism: Contraception Access, Reproductive Medicine, and Health Care by ISBN: 9781498558211Publication Date: 2019Doctors routinely deny patients access to hormonal birth control prescription refills, and this issue has broad interest for feminism, biomedical ethics, and applied ethics in general. This book argues that such practices violate a variety of legal and moral standards, including medical malpractice, informed consent, and human rights.
Men's Health Equity: A Handbook by ISBN: 9781138052963Publication Date: 2019This book is the first volume to describe men's health equity as a field of study that emerged from gaps in and between research on men's health and health inequities.
Women’s Health Across the Lifespan by ISBN: 9781265164225Publication Date: 2024The primary emphasis of this book is individualizing therapy for girls, women, transwomen, and gender-nonconforming individuals
Find LGBTQIA+ and Women's Health Information Online
Below are links to government sources on health equity initiatives and LGBTQIA+ and women's health, including policy information and national survey reports.
- Website - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health Equity, Women's HealthThis page provides information sources on health issues and inequities affecting women.
- Website - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+)Find sources on the LGBTQIA+ population, including national survey reports, agency and federal initiatives, and related behavioral health sources.
- Website - United States Department of Health and Human Services: LGBTQI+ Health & Well-beingThis agency offers programs and services for LGBTQIA+ Americans, families, and communities to ensure equal access to health services.