Structural Transphobia, Homophobia, and Biphobia in Public Health Practice: The Example of COVID-19 Surveillance
| Autor: | Randall L. Sell, Elise I Krims |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) MEDLINE Severity of Illness Index Biphobia Sexual and Gender Minorities 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Public health surveillance Risk Factors Political science Environmental health medicine Humans Public Health Surveillance 030212 general & internal medicine 030505 public health Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 United States Social Isolation Socioeconomic Factors Homophobia 0305 other medical science Transphobia |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Public Health. 111:1620-1626 |
| ISSN: | 1541-0048 0090-0036 |
| DOI: | 10.2105/ajph.2021.306277 |
| Popis: | Public health surveillance can have profound impacts on the health of populations, with COVID-19 surveillance offering an illuminating example. Surveillance surrounding COVID-19 testing, confirmed cases, and deaths has provided essential information to public health professionals about how to minimize morbidity and mortality. In the United States, surveillance has also pointed out how populations, on the basis of geography, age, and race and ethnicity, are being impacted disproportionately, allowing targeted intervention and evaluation. However, COVID-19 surveillance has also highlighted how the public health surveillance system fails some communities, including sexual and gender minorities. This failure has come about because of the haphazard and disorganized way disease reporting data are collected, analyzed, and reported in the United States, and the structural homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia acting within these systems. We provide recommendations for addressing these concerns after examining experiences collecting race data in COVID-19 surveillance and attempts in Pennsylvania and California to incorporate sexual orientation and gender identity variables into their pandemic surveillance efforts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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