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- Voters in seven states in the 2024 election approved measures to protect access to abortion, continuing a streak nationwide that brought together voters from both parties and in red, blue and purple states to support reproductive freedom.Abortion is an LGBTQ issue. LGBTQ people can and do become pregnant and need reproductive health care. The same activists pushing anti-abortion laws also fought…November 2024Abortion, Abortion Access
- The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals recently allowed Florida’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth to go back into effect. In a dissenting opinion, Judge Charles Wilson stated, “This matter is a medical issue, where patients are best left to make decisions alongside health professionals, with access to complete, unbiased information, as needed.” Wilson’s words demonstrate how bans…September 2024Advocacy
- From 1969’s Stonewall to the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision for equal marriage, the expansion of LGBTQ+ rights in the United States has been an important development in the past century. LGBTQ+ health is a crucial part of this progress. While awareness of LGBTQ+ health and rights has been given more attention in the past decade, there is also legislation in multiple states…June 2024Advocacy
- Health coverage in the United States is marked by a blend of private and public insurance options that leaves about 8% of the population uninsured. This coverage system has evolved over the years, most recently with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which aimed to reduce the uninsured rate by expanding Medicaid, creating health insurance Marketplaces for individuals, and…May 2024Policy and Practice
- The Coalition is committed to improving the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals through federal and local advocacy, education, and research. The Coalition strives to address the entire LGBTQ+ community, including individuals of every sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, and age regardless of disability, income, education, and…April 2024Policy and Practice
- Nearly a third of all nations class LGBTQ+ people as criminals. Homosexuality is still punishable by death in 12 countries. This can make it impossible for the LGBTQ+ community – still one of the groups most affected by the HIV epidemic to get the healthcare they need. (author introduction)January 2024Advocacy
- This website includes links to resources on LGBT equality and economic opportunity.January 2024Policy and Practice
- LGBTQI+ people are a vital part of our nation and have remained resilient in their fight for equal rights. However, the LGBTQI+ community is currently facing unprecedented levels of discrimination: State attacks explicitly targeting the rights of LGBTQI+ people have surged in recent years, while attempts to ban gender-affirming health care and criminalize drag performances have spread through…January 2024Policy and Practice
- By inspiring and engaging individuals and communities, the Human Rights Campaign strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and realize a world that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all. HRC envisions a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people plus community members who use different language to describe identity are ensured equality and embraced as…January 2024Advocacy
- 2023 is on pace to be a record-setting year for state legislation targeting LGBTQ adults and youth, with legislation that targets healthcare, education, public places and services, and drag performers or entertainment. Each of the previous two years—2022 and 2021—were record-setting years for anti-LGBTQ legislation, and the public rhetoric around these issues has increased since then. (author…January 2024Policy & Law
- October marks LGBTQ History Month, and this week on At Liberty we are honoring the legacy of LGBTQ activism throughout the AIDS epidemic. Throughout the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, AIDS claimed the lives of thousands of New Yorkers per year, with city, state, and national governments doing little to address the crisis. In response to government inaction and homophobia, a group of New York City…October 2023Advocacy
- As the month of LGBTQ+ Pride approaches, it is worth noting the elevated and preventable health risks of those who are LGBTQ+. As two gay men who have been public health officials for a few decades, we see the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ people as being at a crossroads. On the one hand, notable progress has been made since we began our public health careers when the health of LGBTQ+…May 2023Advocacy
- The purpose of this report is to establish the Evidence Agenda described in EO 14075 and to provide a roadmap for federal agencies as they work to create their own data-driven and measurable SOGI Data Action Plans to help assess, improve, and monitor the health and well-being of LGBTQI+ people over time.January 2023Policy & Law
- In a finding that challenges the notion that immigrants are freeloaders in the American health care system, a new study shows they are paying a lot more through health care premiums and related taxes than they actually use in care. In fact, the amount that immigrants pay in makes up for some of the amount of health care that non-immigrants use in excess of what they pay. “Some…November 2022Services & Programs
- In honor of PRIDE month, speakers discussed strategies to advance justice and health. This P4HE Webinar included information on how to take LGBTQ+ research and science to engage with policy makers to advance LGBTQ+ rights, which is particularly critical given the anti LGBTQ+ movement springing up across the United States and globally.#P4HEwebinarJune2022June 2022Policy and Practice
- The CMS Framework for Health Equity provides a strong foundation for our work as a leader and trusted partner dedicated to advancing health equity, expanding coverage, and improving health outcomes. This includes strengthening our infrastructure for assessment, creating synergies across the health care system to drive structural change, and identifying and working together to eliminate barriers…April 2022Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Services & Programs
- The Accountable Health Communities Model addressed a critical gap between clinical care and community services in the current health care delivery system by testing whether systematically identifying and addressing the health-related social needs of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries through screening, referral, and community navigation services will impact health care costs and reduce health…April 2022Medicaid, Services & Programs, Social Environment
- For decades, Medicaid has provided virtually no-cost coverage to millions of Americans priced out of the private insurance market. Still, state legislators, policy analysts, and the popular press continue to question Medicaid’s value, particularly in relation to private coverage. Twelve states have not expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) framework despite the offer of…March 2022Medicaid
- Background: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people present poorer mental and physical health results compared to the heterosexual and cisgender population. There are barriers in the healthcare system that increase these health inequities.Objective: To synthesise the available evidence on how nurses can intervene in reducing health inequities in LGBT people, identifying their…November 2021Chronic Disease, Mental/Behavioral Health, Health Reform, Social/Structural Determinants
- Importance: It is unclear how the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic downturn have affected insurance coverage and disparities in access to health care among low-income families and people of color in states that have and have not expanded Medicaid. Objective: To determine changes in insurance coverage and disparities in access to health care among low-income families and people…August 2021COVID-19/Coronavirus, Medicaid
- Lawmakers in at least 35 states have introduced more than 250 bills that aim to curb the rights of LGBTQ people, with more than 100 bills specifically targeting transgender people in what advocacy groups have called the worst year for anti-LGBTQ legislation in recent history.A majority of the measures impact transgender youth, a population that is already disproportionately impacted by mental…May 2021Policy & Law, Social/Structural Determinants, Transphobia
- Medicaid has a long history of serving pregnant women, but many women are not eligible for Medicaid before pregnancy or after sixty days postpartum. We used data for new mothers with Medicaid-covered prenatal care in 2015–18 from forty-three states participating in the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) to describe patterns of perinatal uninsurance and health outcomes of women…April 2021Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Maternal/Child Health, Depression, Medicaid
- Health care professionals nationally may be inadequately trained to address gaps in health care affecting underserved communities, according to findings published this summer in a JAMA Network Open paper. VCU’s health sciences schools are working to bridge this gap. In the fall of 2020, VCU’s health sciences schools initiated several inaugural events to increase awareness of the health care…January 2021Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- UNC Health rapidly launched a mobile Covid testing unit to underserved community sites in May 2020 to provide targeted testing of uninsured Black and Latinx community members. We engaged with existing Black and Latinx community leaders to co-develop the program, converting a mobile vascular screening unit into a testing site and resource center for patients at risk. In the first three months, 2,…October 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- The National Quality Forum and several collaborators launched the National Quality Task Force in late 2018 to analyze the progress of the modern quality movement today and recommend a path forward. Despite impressive gains, notable shortcomings persist in normalizing consistent, high-value, person-centered care. What is primarily missing is not progress in measurement, but progress in results.…May 2020Health Reform
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