Moving Toward a Holistic Conceptual Framework for Understanding Healthy Aging Among Gay Men
| Autor: | Danielle C. Ompad, Rafael Perez-Figueroa, Perry N. Halkitis, Farzana Kapadia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male Aging Social Psychology Social Stigma Population Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Holistic Health medicine.disease_cause Health Services Accessibility Education Gender Studies Politics Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) HIV Seropositivity medicine Humans Mainstream Healthcare Disparities Homosexuality Male Social Change Healthy aging education General Psychology Aged Health Services Needs and Demand education.field_of_study Gender studies Health Status Disparities General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease United States Conceptual framework Quality of Life Homophobia Psychology Psychosocial Forecasting |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Homosexuality. 62:571-587 |
| ISSN: | 1540-3602 0091-8369 |
| Popis: | In the last four decades, we have witnessed vast and important transitions in the social, economic, political, and health contexts of the lived experiences of gay men in the United States. This dynamic period, as evidenced most prominently by the transition of the gay rights movement to a civil rights movement, has shifted the exploration of gay men's health from one focusing primarily on HIV/AIDS into a mainstream consideration of the overall health and wellbeing of gay men. Against this backdrop, aging gay men in the United States constitute a growing population, for whom further investigations of health states and health-related disparities are warranted. In order to advance our understanding of the health and wellbeing of aging gay men, we outline here a multilevel, ecosocial conceptual framework that integrates salient environmental, social, psychosocial, and sociodeomgraphic factors into sets of macro-, meso-, and micro-level constructs that can be applied to comprehensively study health states and health care utilization in older gay men. |
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