The Health and Medicine Division’s (HMD) Healthy People 2030 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality have highlighted the health disparities affecting LGBTQ+ populations. As evidence of health-illness patterns continues to be reported in the literature, this module presents the complex social determinants of health unique among the LGBTQ+ community. Information will be analyzed based on the six conceptual perspectives for understanding LGBTQ+ health suggested by the HMD: stigma, social constructionism, identity affirmation, life course, intersectionality, and social ecology.

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Goal and Learning Outcomes

The goal of this course is to provide social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists, speech-language pathologists and audiologists, physical therapists, and physicians with education regarding the issues of the LGBTQ+ community within the healthcare system.

After taking this course, you should be able to:

Identify the lifespan health considerations of LGBTQ+ individuals (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and older adulthood), including coming out and family systems.
Indicate social determinants of health and health disparities among LGBTQ+ populations.
Define LGBTQ+ health risk factors, including physical, mental, psychosocial, and cultural.
Analyze barriers faced by LGBTQ+ people in accessing healthcare and why these barriers exist.
Identify strategies for providing sensitive and informed healthcare for the LGBTQ+ community.

Course Authors

Jennifer Niles

MSW, LCSW, LCAS

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In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

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Disclosures

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+): Health Disparities

This course is free with an Unlimited CE upgrade!

This course is FREE with Unlimited CE!