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S'està carregant… Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health (edició 2020)de Adrian Shanker (Editor)
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"LGBT people pervasively experience health disparities, affecting every part of their bodies and lives. Yet many are still grappling to understand the mutually reinforcing health care challenges that lead LGBT people to experience worsened health outcomes. Bodies and Barriers informs health care professionals, students in health professions, policymakers, and fellow activists about these challenges, providing insights and a road map for action that could improve queer health. Through artfully articulated, data-informed essays by twenty-six well-known and emerging queer activists-including Alisa Bowman, Jack Harrison-Quintana, Liz Margolies, Robyn Ochs, Sean Strub, Justin Tanis, Ryan Thoreson, Imani Woody, and more-Bodies and Barriers illuminates the ubiquitous health challenges LGBT people experience throughout their lives. The book challenges conventional wisdom about health care delivery. It probes deeply into the roots of the health disparities and worsened health outcomes that the LGBT community face and empowers activists with crucial information to fight for health equity through clinical, behavioral, and policy changes. The activist contributors in Bodies and Barriers look for tangible improvements-their stories are lessons learned for caring health care professionals, sympathetic policymakers, and motivated activists-drawing lessons from the history of HIV/AIDS in America and from struggles against health care bias and discrimination. At a galvanizing moment when LGBT people have experienced great strides in lived equality, but our 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 LGBT movement today. LGBT people pervasively experience health disparities, affecting every part of their bodies and lives. Yet many are still grappling to understand the mutually reinforcing health care challenges that lead LGBT people to experience worsened health outcomes. Bodies and Barriers informs health care professionals, students in health professions, policymakers, and fellow activists about these challenges, providing insights and a road map for action that could improve queer health. Through artfully articulated, data-informed essays by twenty-six well-known and emerging queer activists-including Alisa Bowman, Jack Harrison-Quintana, Liz Margolies, Robyn Ochs, Sean Strub, Justin Tanis, Ryan Thoreson, Imani Woody, and more-Bodies and Barriers illuminates the ubiquitous health challenges LGBT people experience throughout their lives. The book challenges conventional wisdom about health care delivery. It probes deeply into the roots of the health disparities and worsened health outcomes that the LGBT community face and empowers activists with crucial information to fight for health equity through clinical, behavioral, and policy changes. The activist contributors in Bodies and Barriers look for tangible improvements-their stories are lessons learned for caring health care professionals, sympathetic policymakers, and motivated activists-drawing lessons from the history of HIV/AIDS in America and from struggles against health care bias and discrimination. At a galvanizing moment when LGBT people have experienced great strides in lived equality, but our 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 LGBT movement today"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Unfortunately, health equity is not a reality when it comes to LGBTQ people, even in the United States. Although the biology, genetics, and medical treatments are basically the same, worse outcomes are reached because of social barriers. Over and over, this book brings to light detailed, cited data that support this general theory. All healthcare workers, who are sworn by oath to serve the general public regardless of personal views, should pay heed to these overtures. Their actions and biases likely play an outsized influence on these outcomes.
LGBTQ influencers should also pay heed in developing strategies to overcome these inequities. This book compiles firsthand stories of those impacted by healthcare inequities. These stories bring out nuances for several age groups: youth, young adults, middle-age adults, and older adults. Each of these possess unique needs, and essays deal with topics focused on each. Topics are medically focused and include a myriad of drivers of health, like tobacco (the #1 killer of LGBTQ people), cancer, HIV, eldercare, family planning, suicide, and transgender care.
Overall, this book provides a helpful compilation providing insight about socially relevant issues. This book is not about politics or power, but about human rights and health. No one deserves discrimination or ill-treatment – even if not motivated by animus – based on who they love or how they feel about their own bodies. By addressing our often unconscious, unintentional mistakes, this book can teach us how to accomplish that feat better. (