Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+): Health Disparities
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+): Health Disparities is organized by Nurse.com - OnCourse Learning Corporation.
Course Originally Released on: 10/17/2022
Date of Most Recent Review: 10/17/2022
Course Termination/ Update Date: 12/31/2025
Description:
The Health and Medicine Division’s (HMD) Healthy People 2030 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality have highlighted the health disparities affecting LGBTQ+ populations. As evidence of health-illness patterns continues to be reported in the literature, this module presents the complex social determinants of health unique among the LGBTQ+ community. Information will be analyzed based on the six conceptual perspectives for understanding LGBTQ+ health suggested by the HMD: stigma, social constructionism, identity affirmation, life course, intersectionality, and social ecology.
Goal and Learning Outcomes:
The goal of this course is to provide social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists, speech-language pathologists and audiologists, physical therapists, and physicians with education regarding the issues of the LGBTQ+ community within the healthcare system.
After taking this course, you should be able to:
• Identify the lifespan health considerations of LGBTQ+ individuals (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and older adulthood), including coming out and family systems.
• Indicate social determinants of health and health disparities among LGBTQ+ populations.
• Define LGBTQ+ health risk factors, including physical, mental, psychosocial, and cultural.
• Analyze barriers faced by LGBTQ+ people in accessing healthcare and why these barriers exist.
• Identify strategies for providing sensitive and informed healthcare for the LGBTQ+ community.