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A Review of Patient Experiences and Provider Education to Improve Transgender Health Inequities in the USA
Transgender individuals are an underserved, vulnerable population. They face many inequities including barriers in both accessing and receiving adequate healthcare. These inequities are proposed here to be rooted in a lack of education about transgender people and their experiences. We begin by expl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10606079/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37887687 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20206949 |
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description | Transgender individuals are an underserved, vulnerable population. They face many inequities including barriers in both accessing and receiving adequate healthcare. These inequities are proposed here to be rooted in a lack of education about transgender people and their experiences. We begin by exploring the existing transgender healthcare research carried out in the USA, examining client experiences, provider education and attitudes, and the barriers transgender people face to obtaining proper healthcare. Secondly, we look at the previous research on educational interventions implemented with medical students and practitioners in the USA to enhance knowledge about transgender people, and increase sensitivity and awareness, while also increasing the level of comfort in working with these clients. The limitations in these fields of study are discussed in order to understand how to better serve transgender clients in the USA. We will do this through a narrative review to determine evidence-based best practices for educational intervention, uncovering gaps in the literature and highlighting where to focus in future work for researchers and practitioners. |
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spelling | pubmed-106060792023-10-28 A Review of Patient Experiences and Provider Education to Improve Transgender Health Inequities in the USA Tanenbaum, Gabriel J. Holden, LaTasha R. Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Transgender individuals are an underserved, vulnerable population. They face many inequities including barriers in both accessing and receiving adequate healthcare. These inequities are proposed here to be rooted in a lack of education about transgender people and their experiences. We begin by exploring the existing transgender healthcare research carried out in the USA, examining client experiences, provider education and attitudes, and the barriers transgender people face to obtaining proper healthcare. Secondly, we look at the previous research on educational interventions implemented with medical students and practitioners in the USA to enhance knowledge about transgender people, and increase sensitivity and awareness, while also increasing the level of comfort in working with these clients. The limitations in these fields of study are discussed in order to understand how to better serve transgender clients in the USA. We will do this through a narrative review to determine evidence-based best practices for educational intervention, uncovering gaps in the literature and highlighting where to focus in future work for researchers and practitioners. MDPI 2023-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10606079/ /pubmed/37887687 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20206949 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Tanenbaum, Gabriel J. Holden, LaTasha R. A Review of Patient Experiences and Provider Education to Improve Transgender Health Inequities in the USA |
title | A Review of Patient Experiences and Provider Education to Improve Transgender Health Inequities in the USA |
title_full | A Review of Patient Experiences and Provider Education to Improve Transgender Health Inequities in the USA |
title_fullStr | A Review of Patient Experiences and Provider Education to Improve Transgender Health Inequities in the USA |
title_full_unstemmed | A Review of Patient Experiences and Provider Education to Improve Transgender Health Inequities in the USA |
title_short | A Review of Patient Experiences and Provider Education to Improve Transgender Health Inequities in the USA |
title_sort | review of patient experiences and provider education to improve transgender health inequities in the usa |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10606079/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37887687 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20206949 |
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