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Contemporary Perspectives on LGBTQ Psychology and Health
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Contemporary Perspectives on LGBTQ Psychology and Health

A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Psychology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 987

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Catherine Meads

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Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK
Interests: sexual orientation and health; gender identity and health; leading and managing systematic reviews and health technology assessments; systematic reviews in complex interventions, diagnostics, prognosis, causality and health service delivery; health technology assessments incorporating a variety of systematic reviews with economic evaluations
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are organising a Special Issue titled “Contemporary Perspectives on LGBTQ Psychology and Health” in the MDPI journal, Behavioural Sciences.

Improving psychological and physical health, wellbeing, and healthcare experiences for sexual and gender minority people around the world is an important objective, as people from these groups often suffer from multiple disadvantages due to intersectional issues. By sexual and gender minority people, we refer to (and include) lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, MSM, WSW, MSWM, WSMW, trans, non-binary, intersex, queer or other non-heterosexual and/or non-cisgender people of all ages and ethnicities. Improving health and wellbeing is an important objective for all who aspire to reducing health inequities (i.e., inequalities that are considered preventable). As such, it is important to not only understand the various factors that contribute to both the mental and physical health/wellbeing of sexual and gender minority populations but also the mediators and moderators of these relationships. Given this focus, this Special Issue welcomes original and relevant contributions to this area of research. We are particularly interested in areas where little research has been previously published and will consider primary qualitative or quantitative research, secondary data analysis and systematic reviews. The following listed keywords suggest some of the many varied possibilities.

Prof. Dr. Catherine Meads
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sexual orientation
  • gender identity
  • LGBTQ+
  • asexuality
  • intersex
  • intersectionality issues
  • wellbeing
  • physical health
  • mental health
  • behaviours and risks
  • social determinants
  • health behaviour and health seeking
  • quality of life
  • economic evaluation
  • resilience
  • empowerment
  • social justice
  • self-efficacy
  • lived experience
  • health knowledge, attitudes and practice
  • health literacy
  • human and civil rights
  • health improvement
  • social inclusion and sense of community
  • social and community participation
  • mediators and moderators of health and wellbeing
  • education of health and social care professionals

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What Are the Economic Arguments for Mandating LGBT+ Health Training for Healthcare Providers? An Economic Evaluation of the Impacts of LGBT+ Health Training on Cervical Screening
by Saima Bashir, William Whittaker and Catherine Meads
Behav. Sci. 2024, 14(3), 260; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14030260 - 21 Mar 2024
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Background: Equitable access to healthcare is a priority of many healthcare systems, aiming to ensure access is driven by need and not minority groups such as those defined by sexual orientation. However, there are healthcare areas where inequity in access across sexual [...] Read more.
Background: Equitable access to healthcare is a priority of many healthcare systems, aiming to ensure access is driven by need and not minority groups such as those defined by sexual orientation. However, there are healthcare areas where inequity in access across sexual orientation groups is found that are not justified based on need. Mandated LGBTQ+-specific training of the healthcare workforce may help address some barriers of access for these groups. The study aims to understand the potential economic implications for mandated LGBTQ+-specific healthcare training on the healthcare system in England, UK to inform commissioning of training provision. Methods: Cervical cancer screening was used as an exemplar case where there appears to be inequity in access for different sexual orientation groups. A decision model was developed and analysed that considered the impacts of greater uptake of screening for lesbian and bisexual women due to LGBTQ+ training. Costs took the perspective of the healthcare system and outcomes modelled were cancer cases averted in a timeframe of 5 years. Results: Based on cervical cancer screening alone, where training costs are fully attributed to this service, training would likely result in fewer cancer cases detected in the lesbian and bisexual populations, though this comes at a modest increase in healthcare sector costs, with this increase largely reflecting a greater volume of screens. Training costs do not appear to be a major component of the cost implications. Conclusions: In resource-constrained systems with increasing pressures for efficiency savings, the opportunity cost of delivering training is a realistic component of the commissioning decision. The findings in this paper provide a signal that mandated LGBTQ+ training in healthcare could lead to potentially greater outcomes and in breaking down barriers of access and could also enable the healthcare system to provide more equitable access to healthcare. Full article
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