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Written by experienced clinicians and edited by Vanderbilt Program for LGBTI Health faculty, this book contains up-to-date expertise from physicians renowned for their work in LGBT health. This important text fills an informational void about the practical health needs of LGBT patients in both the primary care and specialty settings remains, and serves as a guide for LGBT preventive and specialty medicine that can be utilized within undergraduate medical education, residency training, and medical practice. Beginning with a short review of LGBT populations and health disparities, it largely focuses on the application and implementation of LGBT best practices within all realms of medical care. In addition, the book offers recommendations for the integration of LGBT health into systems-based practice by addressing intake forms and electronic health records, as well as evidence-based emerging concerns in LGBT health.
This is a must-have volume for medical students, residents, andpracticing physicians from all medical specialties.
List of contents
Part I: The LGBT Population and Health.- 1. Understanding the LGBT Community.- 2. Access to Care.- 3. Culture, Climate, and Advocacy.- 4. Internalized Homophobia, Disclosure, and Health.- Part II: The LGBY-Inclusive Clinical Encounter.- 5. Clinic and Intake Forms.- 6. Medical History.- 7. Utilizing the Electronic Health Record as a Tool for Reducing LGBT Health Disparities.- Part III: LGBT Preventative Health and Screening.- 8. Primary Care, Prevention, and Coordination of Care.- 9. LGBT Parenting.- 10. Intimate Partner Violence.- Part IV: LGBT Health in Specialty Medicine.- 11. Pediatric and Adolescent LGBT Health.- 12. Geriatric Care and the LGBT Older Adult.- 13. Adult Mental Health.- 14. Sexually Transmitted Infections in LGBT Populations.- 15. Dermatology.- 16. Urologic Issues in LGBT Health.- 17. Obstetric and Gynecologic Care for Individuals Who Are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender.- Part V: Transgender Health.- 18. Interdisciplinary Care of the Transgender Patient.- 19.Medical Transition for Transgender Individuals.- 20. Surgical Treatments for the Transgender Population.- 21. Facial Feminization Surgery: Review of Facial Analysis and Surgical Procedures.- Part VI: Emerging Topics in LGBT Medicine.- 22. Immigrant and International LGBT Health.- 23. Disorders of Sex Development / Intersex Populations.- 24. Legal and Policy Issues.- 25. Common LGBT Sexual Health Questions.
About the author
Kristen Eckstrand, MD, PhD
Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Program for LGBTI Health
Nashville, TN USA
Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Program for LGBTI Health
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Summary
Written by experienced clinicians and edited by Vanderbilt Program for LGBTI Health faculty, this book contains up-to-date expertise from physicians renowned for their work in LGBT health. This important text fills an informational void about the practical health needs of LGBT patients in both the primary care and specialty settings remains, and serves as a guide for LGBT preventive and specialty medicine that can be utilized within undergraduate medical education, residency training, and medical practice. Beginning with a short review of LGBT populations and health disparities, it largely focuses on the application and implementation of LGBT best practices within all realms of medical care. In addition, the book offers recommendations for the integration of LGBT health into systems-based practice by addressing intake forms and electronic health records, as well as evidence-based emerging concerns in LGBT health.
This is a must-have volume for medical students, residents, andpracticing physicians from all medical specialties.
Report
"This book addresses the specific preventive, primary care, and specialty areas in caring for the LGBT community. ... The audience consists of every primary care and specialty clinician who may care for an LGBT patient the world over. ... this is a seminal publication, comprehensive and forward thinking. This should be used as an important step in a clinician's life-long education." (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, June, 2016)
