Hence, to be able to take appropriate measures, it is important to identify the reasons that transgender individuals see as causal for their experiences of discrimination in healthcare.MethodsWe conducted semi-structured interviews with 14 German transgender individuals and asked them about their own ...
Transgender individuals experience limited access to healthcare. This results not least from experiences of discrimination to which they are exposed in the health system. These contribute to transgender individuals having poorer health than cis individua
Transgender individuals experience limited access to healthcare. This results not least from experiences of discrimination to which they are exposed in the health system. These contribute to transgender individuals having poorer health than cis individua
Improving those figures is about more than providing equal career opportunities for people of different backgrounds, though. The healthcare industry needs diversity because long-standing biases and the lingering effects of historical discrimination have led to uneven care standards. The medical syst...
This has been mainly attributed to past abuses in clinical research, perceived discrimination in health care and the lack of awareness about clinical research. Thanks to the strong regulatory and ethical oversight of clinical trials and growing transparency about trial conduct over the past decades, ...
and living with HIV commonly pushes PLWH to a lower or low socioeconomic status position for a variety of reasons including staying unemployed because of concerns about loss of disability income benefits or of publicly-funded health insurance, and fears of discrimination in the workplace [13]. Th...
Additionally, American Indian youth endorse greater cannabis coping motives relative to their white peers, which may also be associated with experiences of discrimination, though more research is needed to clarify this relationship [27]. Considerably more research is also necessary to assess the ...
Psychosocial Measures Participants completed self-report questionnaires that included: the HIV Stigma Mechanism Measure,31 the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D),32 the State-Trait Anxiety Index (STAI),33 the Everyday Discrimination Scale,34 the 36-Item Short Form Health ...
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National Ugly Mugs (NUM) is a UK-wide violence prevention and victim support charity that provides a mechanism for sex workers to share safety information and obtain support for harms that they may experience during the course of their work. Over the past several years, NUM has witnessed a de...