RESOURCES FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Topics
Professional Associations
Clinical Guidelines
LGBT Health Training and Teaching Materials
LGBT Health Research and Education
LGBT Health Disparities Literature
For resources to offer your patients or clients, see Consumer Resources.
Professional Associations
Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Physician Assistant Caucus (LGBT PA Caucus)
American Medical Association: GLBT Advisory Committee
American Medical Student Association: Gender and Sexuality Committee
American Psychological Association: Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Concerns
American Public Health Association: LGBT Caucus of Public Health Workers
Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies: Study of GLBT Issues
Association For Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues in Counseling
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
Lavender Lamps: National Lesbian and Gay Nurses Association
(no website. 718.933.1158)
National Association of Social Workers: National Committee on LGBT Issues
LGBT Nurses Forum
Bisexual Health List Serv (activists and professionals)
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Clinical Guidelines
General LGBT Health
Bonvicini KA, Perlin MJ. The same but different: clinician-patient communication with gay and lesbian patients. Patient Education and Counseling. 2003;51:115-122. Read article abstract.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Access Project. Community standards of practice for the provision of quality health care services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender clients. Read online/Download.
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association. Guidelines for the care of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients. 2006. Download.
Kaiser Permanente National Diversity Council and the Kaiser Permanente National Diversity Department. A provider’s handbook on culturally competent care: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered population. San Francisco, CA, 2000. To order: Kaiser National Diversity Department: 510.271.6663
Makadon HJ, Mayer, KH, Potter J, Goldhammer H (eds.). The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health. American College of Physicians, 2007. Order online. Go to Fenway Guide Resources for Clinicians and Patients.
Makadon HJ. Improving health care for the lesbian and gay communities. N Engl J Med. 2006;354:895-897. Read article abstract.
Mental Health
American Psychological Association. Guidelines for psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. Read online guidelines.
Omoto A, Kurtzman H. Sexual Orientation and Mental Health. American Psychological Association; 2006. Order online.
Perez R, DeBord K, Bieschke K. Handbook of counseling and psychotherapy with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients. American Psychological Association; 2000. Order online.
Substance Abuse
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, US Department of Health and Human Services. A provider’s introduction to substance abuse treatment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. 2001.
DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 01-3498. Download.
Sexual Minority Men
Knight D. Health care screening for men who have sex with men. Am Fam Physician. 2004; 69:2149-2156. Link to article abstract.
Makadon H. Primary care of gay men. UpToDate 2006, Version 14.2. Link to abstract.
Makadon HJ, Mayer KH, Garofalo R. Optimizing primary care for men who have sex with men. JAMA. 2006;296:2362-2365. Link to article abstract.
Massachusetts Department of Health, Fenway Community Health. Prevention and management of sexually transmitted diseases in men who have sex with men: a toolkit for clinicians. 2003. Download.
Sexual Minority Women
White JC, Levinson W. Lesbian health care. What a primary care physician needs to know. West J Med. 1995:162: 463466. Download.
Bisexual
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, BiNet USA, The Fenway Institute. Bisexual health: an introduction and model practices for HIV/STI prevention programming. 2007. Download.
Transgender
Trans Care Project. Guidelines for Transgender Care. Vancouver, BC; 2006. Download.
Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association. The standards of care for gender identity disorders. 6th Version, 2001. Download.
Intersex
Consortium on the Management of Disorders of Sex Development. Clinical guidelines for the management of disorders of sex development. Intersex Society of North America; 2006. Download.
Adolescent
Perrin E. Sexual Orientation in Child and Adolescent Health Care. Springer, 2002. Order online.
Ryan CC, Futterman D. Lesbian and Gay Youth: Counseling and Care. Columbia University Press, 1998. Order online.
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LGBT Health Training and Teaching Materials
Projects in a Box for teaching LGBT health in medical schools.From the American Medical Student Association, Gender and Sexuality Committee.
Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Learning Module. From the Gender and Health Collaborative Curriculum Project.
Addiction Technology Transfer Center LGBT Substance Abuse Counselor Training Curriculum. From the Prairielands Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network.
LGBT Health Education Working Group. An email discussion group and forum for those working to design and implement LGBT health education programs. To sign up for this listserv, email your name and affiliation to:professionaleducation@fenwayhealth.org. Put “working group” in the subject line.
MedEdPortal Online, peer-reviewed medical learning and teaching resources. Search for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender-related materials.
Patient Sexual Health History: What you need to know to help
From the American Medical Association
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LGBT Health Research and Education
The Chicago Health and Life Experiences of Women Study
Gaydata.org (http://gaydata.org/)
The LGBT Cancer Project
Lesbian Health Fund (within Gay and Lesbian Medical Association)
Lesbian Health and Research Center
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health, Education and Research Trust
The Mautner Project
Medline Plus: Gay and Lesbian Health (for recent clinical trials and journal articles)
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: Reports and Research
National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study
Safeguards and the LGBT Health Resource Center
Rainbow Health Ontario (RHO)
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LGBT Health Disparities Literature
Download a bibliography of LGBT health literature (Adobe Acrobat PDF). The bibliography (last updated in 2005) consists of 477 references, many with abstracts, and covers topics from LGBT healthcare access, to mental health, to sexually transmitted diseases, to transgender healthcare. Contact The Fenway Institute (617.927.6400) for a searchable version with weblinks (Endnote version 8.1).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sexual behavior and selected health measures: men and women 15-44 years of age, United States, 2002. Read online
Dean L, Meyer IH, Robinson K, et al. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health: findings and concerns. J Gay and Lesbian Med Assoc. 2000;4:101-151. Order article.
Diamant, A.L., Wold C, Spritzer K, et al. Health behaviors, health status, and access to and use of health care: a population-based study of lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women. Archives of Family Medicine. 2000; 9:1043-1051. Link to article abstract.
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association. Healthy People 2010: Companion document for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender health. San Francisco, CA, 2001. Download
Harcourt, J (ed.). Current issues in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health. Haworth Press, 2004. Order Book.
Institute of Medicine, Solarz AL, eds. Lesbian Health: Current Assessment and Directions for the Future. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press; 1999. Download
Meyer IH. Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay and bisexual populations: conceptual issues and research evidence. Psychological Bulletin. 2003;129:674-697. Read online
Meyer IH, Northridge ME, eds. The Health of Sexual Minorities: Public Health Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Populations. Springer; 2006. Order Book.
National Coalition for LGBT Health. An overview of US trans health priorities: a report by the eliminating disparities working group. August, 2004. Download
Potter JE. Do ask, do tell. Annals Internal Medicine. 2002;137:341-343. Link to article abstract.
Wolitski R, Stall R, Valdiserri R, eds. Unequal Opportunity: Health Disparities Among Gay and Bisexual men in the United States. Oxford University Press; in press.
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For resources to offer your patients or clients, see Consumer Resources.
The Fenway Guide to LGBT Health
The Fenway Institute is proud to announce the publication of its groundbreaking work: The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health. Published by the American College of Physicians (ACP), and edited by Harvey Makadon, Ken Mayer, and Hilary Goldhammer of the Fenway Institute, and Jennifer Potter of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, The Fenway Guide is the first American medical textbook dedicated to LGBT health.
For more information and to order copies:
ACP Catalog
Amazon.com
Fenway Press Release
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