Healthcare professionals' assumptions as barriers to LGBTI healthcare
| Autor: | Katrin Hugendubel, Nicholas McGlynn, Lorenzo Gios, Massimo Mirandola, Marta Niedźwiedzka-Stadnik, Magdalena Rosińska, Laetitia Zeeman, Kath Browne, Valeria Donisi, Francesco Farinella, Ruth Davis, Nuno Pinto, Anne Pierson, Nigel Sherriff |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Health (social science) Attitude of Health Personnel Pilot Projects Human sexuality health providers LGBTI Interviews as Topic Sexual and Gender Minorities 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Transgender Health care Humans media_common.cataloged_instance 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology European Union Healthcare Disparities European union media_common Sexual identity 030505 public health business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health health inequalities Focus Groups Focus group Female Thematic analysis Lesbian 0305 other medical science business discrimination |
| Popis: | Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) people experience significant healthcare inequalities and barriers to healthcare services. Contextualised within six Member States of the European Union (EU), this paper discusses efforts to identify and explore the nature of barriers to healthcare as part of Health4LGBTI, a 2-year pilot project funded by the EU. Data were generated through focus groups and interviews with LGBTI people and healthcare professionals and analysed using thematic analysis. Findings reveal that barriers to healthcare are underpinned by two related assumptions held by healthcare professionals: first, the assumption that patients are heterosexual, cisgender and non-intersex by default; second, the assumption that LGBTI people do not experience significant problems (and therefore that their experience is mostly irrelevant to healthcare). On the other hand, it is notable that responding healthcare professionals were broadly 'LGBTI-friendly'. Thus, we argue that efforts to improve LGBTI healthcare should not be limited to engaging with healthcare professionals with negative views of LGBTI people. Rather, such efforts should also tackle these assumptions amongst LGBTI-friendly healthcare professionals. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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