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Health Promotion and LGTBQ2S+ communities - Coggle Diagram
Health Promotion
and LGTBQ2S+ communities
Previous research has mainly focused on deficit-focused models to understand poor health outcomes in LGTBQ2S+ communities but the strengths of this community must be considered further.
Research must focus on how social exclusion and marginalization interacts with behavioural, social and community, psychological, and biological factors at multiple levels to identify fators that foster or impede health equity.
Research must incorporate LGTBQ2S+ individuals of varying social positions to examine the influence of the intersectionality of social positions on health.
Multilevel methods that allow for analysis of structural/environmetal contexts are necessary to fully understand LGTBQ2S+ disparities.
Measurement of individual level data leads to a focus on individual level interventions, which overlooks the structural sources of health inequities.
Eliciting critical hope in community-based HIV research with transgender women in Toronto is an example of this.
Policy changes are needed to promote health equity.
Examples include nondiscrimination laws in employment, housnig and public accomodations, marriage equality, recognition of same-sex unions, and legislation to support non-kin caregivers.
Recognizing the barriers LGBTQ2S+ communities face along with their social identities, health, and wellbeing would require the reframing of population health, SDOH, and public health goals to provide a stronger foudnation for inclusive health promotion policies and initiatives that capture gender and sexual diversity.
Intersectionality influences the health of LGTBQ2S+ significantly.
A consideration of social positions and health must include attention to the intersection of social positions and how social locations interact to crerate disadvantage or advantage based on multiple statuses.
LGBTQ2S+ individuals crom from all backgrounds and ethnicities; for many in these communities, their existance is made up of multiple intersecting social identities.
Canada must support inclusive policy development as it currently is quite lacking.
LGTBQ2S+ communities have not yet been recognized as an identifiable population within the healthcare sector; in fact, gender identity is absent from most human rights legistlations across Canada
Conversion therapy continues to occur in both regulated and unrelated settings in Canada
Canada has failed to capture gender and sexually diverse populations in health and social service public policies
Discrimination is embedded in our society and until that does not change, then LGBTQ2S+ communities' health outcomes will not improve either.
Social patterns of discrimination produce negative health effects in LGTBQ2S+ communities, impacting their ability to form and sustain supported relationships.
Formats of medical-history-taking is exclusive of gender and sexually diverse experiences which may discourgage disclosure of gender itentiy, avoiding or delaying care
Limited knowledge on the part of the healthcare providers compounds these problems.