?HIV/AIDS, suicide, safe sex, drug and alcohol use, depression?.as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (lgbt) people we are pretty familiar with these health concerns among our communities.
What about heart disease or cancer? Is obesity and poor fitness more than just the gay man?s solemn faux pas?
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, commonly referred to as SAMHSA (pronounced ?sam-suh?) just came out with their ?Top Health Issues for LGBT Populations Information & Resource Kit? and Heart and Disease and Cancer are listed as the top two health concerns of lesbian, gay and bisexual men and women.
The SAMHSA reports states, ?Available research related to physical health issues among transgender people is extremely limited and mainly conducted abroad. Furthermore, studies of how medical interventions, such as hormone therapy and/or sexual reassignment surgeries, affect overall physical health and well-being remain extremely limited.?
The report states that lesbians are at higher risk for breast cancers due to fewer full-term pregnancies, PAP tests and regular screenings. Full-term pregnancies produce hormones that are believed to lower a woman?s risk of contracting breast cancers, coupled with social norms of lesbians to be less likely to visit a doctor or nurse for routine health screenings.
Heart disease, cancers, injury and violence, and fitness are the four physical health concerns afflicting gay men in America. Anyone, including heterosexuals, engaging in anal sex is at higher risk of contracting anal cancer and some sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) greatly increases one?s risk of contracting anal or prostate cancer. With few men receiving the HPV vaccine or being adequately screened for HPV, over half of gay men in America acquire HPV.
Now fitness among gay men isn?t the problem you might think it is. In fact, gay men are more likely than straight men to have eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia nervosa as a result ?of negative attitudes about their body image.
Though little research is conducted in America focusing on transgender individuals, what little research is available suggests that physical injury, substance abuse and mental health issues are top concerns for transgender men and women.
HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases are still high among gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men. Though men who have sex with men account for approximately 4% of all men in America, they accounted for over half (53%) of new HIV/AIDS diagnosis in 2006 making men who have sex with men 44 times more likely to contract HIV than other men.
Intimate partner violence (domestic violence) continues to be significantly higher than heterosexual reports. Over half of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women report experiencing intimate partner violence. Compared to heterosexual men and women, more than triple the number of lgbt people experience intimate partner violence.
Drug and alcohol abuse, suicide and depression are listed as major concerns for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women.
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Top Health Issues for LGBT Populations Information & Resource Kit. HHS Publication No. (SMA) 12-4684. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2012.
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