Hi All -
In Canada, the Rainbow Health Coalition website has a lot of information
on health disparities amongst LGBT populations:
http://www.rainbowhealth.ca/english/index.html
Gerry Kasten, RD
Public Health Community Nutritionist
Health Promotion & Prevention
Tricities Public Health
2nd floor, 205 Newport Drive
Port Moody, B.C. V3H 5C9
Tel (604) 949-7264
Fax (604) 949-7211
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From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Joseph Lee
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [SDOH] [spiritof1848] another request - stats re how sexual
orientation affects life expectancy
Jean -
Measuring sexual orientation is hard and sampling sexual minorities is
even harder, so my impression is that the data are not particularly
strong. I have never seen a statistic on sexual minorities' life
expectancy, and I would be dubious if I did because of the sampling and
measurement problems.
However, there are several clear health disparities. Both tobacco usage
and violence (as in victimization/survivorship) are well documented
among sexual minority youth in the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance
System (YRBSS) in states that include questions on sexual
identity/behavior/desire (MA, VT).
Legal rights to health care access for partners are another major area.
Access to safe sex information is lacking in states (like mine) that
teach only abstinence-based sex education.
One major document on disparities is the Healthy People 2010 Companion
Document: http://www.lgbthealth.net/side_hp2010.shtml
Organizations who could talk about this (and other disparities) include:
National Coalition for LGBT Health, http://www.lgbthealth.net Gay &
Lesbian Medical Association, http://www.glma.org/ National LGBT Tobacco
Control Network, http://www.lgbttobacco.org The Williams Institute,
http://www.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute/home.html
I would caution that while sexual minority status is associated with
these and other health disparities, it may also have a protective effect
on some health outcomes. And, more importantly, there is a long
historical struggle, first, to take sexual orientation away from the
purview of medicine and, second, to focus on health disparities that are
caused by discrimination.
Cheers, Joseph.
Joseph Lee, Master's Student
Maternal and Child Health
School of Public Health
University of NC at Chapel Hill
"'Privilege' -- yes, I like that word much better than 'normal.'"
- Gide A. Howard R, transl. Corydon. NY: FSG; 1983. p. 21.
SAMPLE ARTICLES:
Garofalo R, Wolf RC, Kessel S, Palfrey SJ, DuRant RH. The association
between health risk behaviors and sexual orientation among a
school-based sample of adolescents. Pediatrics. 1998 May;101(5):895-902.
DuRant RH, Krowchuk DP, Sinal SH. Victimization, use of violence, and
drug use at school among male adolescents who engage in same-sex sexual
behavior.
J Pediatr. 1998 Jul;133(1):113-8.
Ryan H, Wortley PM, Easton A, Pederson L, Greenwood G. Smoking among
lesbians, gays, and bisexuals: a review of the literature. Am J Prev
Med.
2001 Aug;21(2):142-9.
> From: Jean Cheng <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:15:33 -0700
> To: <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]>
> Conversation: another request - stats re how sexual orientation
> affects life expectancy
> Subject: [spiritof1848] another request - stats re how sexual
> orientation affects life expectancy
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> Sorry, I neglected to include this in my earlier query - we're also
> looking for any facts/data/statistics concerning the impact of sexual
> orientation on health, especially life expectancy (but other
> indicators would be welcome too).
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> Thanks!
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