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Health Promotion in LGBTQ communities - Coggle Diagram
Health Promotion in LGBTQ communities
Conversion therapy on LGBTQ groups should be eliminated.
3.1 Although conversion therapy has been banned in Canada, some clinical settings and non-licensed places still provide this "treatment" for LGBTQ people.
3.2 Conversion therapy is not scientific, nor it is a "treatment".
3.3 No matter what forms are used, conversion therapy creates no goods, only harm.
Health Equity Promotion Model can help to reconceptualization of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health Disparities.
5.1 Health Equity Promotion Model—a framework oriented toward LGBT people reaching their full mental and physical health potential that considers both positive and adverse health-related circumstances.
5.2 The model highlights (a) heterogeneity and intersectionality within LGBT communities; (b) the influence of structural and environmental context; and (c) both health-promoting and adverse pathways that encompass behavioral, social, psychological, and biological processes
5.3 Studies showed the negative impacts of discrimination and social stigma on physical and mental health in LGBT populations.
5.4 The fundamental principles of this Health Equity Promotion Model is that all individuals have the rights to good health.
Critical hope is needed for change and improve the LGBTQ health.
1.1 Optimism and possibility for change are two important concepts from social justice struggles that are central to critical hope and change-oriented research.
1.2 Critical hope makes a promising approach to transformative health promotion and intervention research.
1.3 Critical hope include developing critical awareness of social injustices, alongside developing strategies to negotiate, navigate and resist these injustices.
1.4 The goal of critical hope is to awaken and activate social justice, which is lack in some research work for LGBTQ communities.
Health promotion should ensure to include people from diverse gender identities and sex orientations.
4.1 Health and wellbeing disparities experienced by LGBT populations is valuable for research purposes, but should not be a continuous thing.
4.2 Health promotion aims at improving the overall health status for all Canadians, so LGBTQ population should be included.
Policies, researches, and education often ignore the needs from LGBTQ groups and this needs to change.
2.1 Populations marginalized by gender identity and sexual orientation have been excluded from mainstream health promotion research, policy and practice in Canada and this needs to be changed.
2.2 Improving health status of LGBTQ population is important, as stated in Health Canada "to maintain and improve the health of the entire population and to reduce inequalities in health between population groups".
2.3 Human rights protections for LGBTQ groups won the fight at the national, provincial and territorial legislative levels across Canada, which shows that LGBTQ groups can and should get more attention.
2.4 LGBT health needs are not captured within the epidemiological, individualized and illness-based approach during researches.