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Transgender Individuals and Digital Health
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The goal of this review is to assess the use of digital technologies to promote the health and well-being of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. RECENT FINDINGS: TGD individuals experience numerous health disparities, including low uptake of HIV prevention strategies, suc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9493149/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36136217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11904-022-00629-7 |
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author | Radix, Asa E. Bond, Keosha Carneiro, Pedro B. Restar, Arjee |
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description | PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The goal of this review is to assess the use of digital technologies to promote the health and well-being of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. RECENT FINDINGS: TGD individuals experience numerous health disparities, including low uptake of HIV prevention strategies, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis, increased HIV incidence, and suboptimal HIV-related outcomes. These health disparities are the result of widespread intersectional stigma on the basis of gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic class, race, and ethnicity, which negatively impact access to general medical and transgender-specific health care. TGD individuals often delay or avoid essential medical services due to fear of discrimination. Clinicians frequently lack training, competence, and skills in transgender medicine, further exacerbating the health disparities faced by TGD people. Digital technologies have been used to improve research and clinical care for TGD populations through various modalities; telemedicine, telehealth and mHealth. SUMMARY: Digital health technologies, including HIT-enabled clinical decision support, telehealth, telemedicine, and mHealth, offer innovative ways to improve health care access, improve quality of care, and reduce health disparities for TGD populations, including and beyond HIV outcomes, through enhanced care delivery, clinician education, and enhancing social support networks. |
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spelling | pubmed-94931492022-09-22 Transgender Individuals and Digital Health Radix, Asa E. Bond, Keosha Carneiro, Pedro B. Restar, Arjee Curr HIV/AIDS Rep eHealth and HIV (J Stekler and D Katz, Section Editors) PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The goal of this review is to assess the use of digital technologies to promote the health and well-being of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. RECENT FINDINGS: TGD individuals experience numerous health disparities, including low uptake of HIV prevention strategies, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis, increased HIV incidence, and suboptimal HIV-related outcomes. These health disparities are the result of widespread intersectional stigma on the basis of gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic class, race, and ethnicity, which negatively impact access to general medical and transgender-specific health care. TGD individuals often delay or avoid essential medical services due to fear of discrimination. Clinicians frequently lack training, competence, and skills in transgender medicine, further exacerbating the health disparities faced by TGD people. Digital technologies have been used to improve research and clinical care for TGD populations through various modalities; telemedicine, telehealth and mHealth. SUMMARY: Digital health technologies, including HIT-enabled clinical decision support, telehealth, telemedicine, and mHealth, offer innovative ways to improve health care access, improve quality of care, and reduce health disparities for TGD populations, including and beyond HIV outcomes, through enhanced care delivery, clinician education, and enhancing social support networks. Springer US 2022-09-22 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9493149/ /pubmed/36136217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11904-022-00629-7 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | eHealth and HIV (J Stekler and D Katz, Section Editors) Radix, Asa E. Bond, Keosha Carneiro, Pedro B. Restar, Arjee Transgender Individuals and Digital Health |
title | Transgender Individuals and Digital Health |
title_full | Transgender Individuals and Digital Health |
title_fullStr | Transgender Individuals and Digital Health |
title_full_unstemmed | Transgender Individuals and Digital Health |
title_short | Transgender Individuals and Digital Health |
title_sort | transgender individuals and digital health |
topic | eHealth and HIV (J Stekler and D Katz, Section Editors) |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9493149/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36136217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11904-022-00629-7 |
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