Occupational and environmental health nurses should be aware of the unique challenges and potential discrimination faced by transgender workers.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
---|---|
http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/21650799-20141118-04 | DOI Listing |
BMC Med Ethics
January 2025
The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Background: The World Professional Association for Transgender Health guidelines Standards of Care 8 draw on ethical arguments based on individual autonomy, to argue that healthcare and other professionals should be advocates for trans people. Such guidelines presume the presence of medical services for trans people and a degree of consensus on medical ethics. Very little is known, however, about the ethical challenges associated with both providing and accessing trans healthcare, including gender affirmation, in the Global South.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBrain Behav
January 2025
Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Türkiye.
Purpose: Genetic studies on the transgender and gender diverse (TGD) community have started to appear in the literature. However, there are limited studies on how genetic data will impact attitudes and perspectives toward TGD individuals. In this study, we investigated the impact of genetic alterations on physicians' attitudes toward TGD individuals and on physicians' decisions concerning gender confirmation surgery (GCS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJAMA Netw Open
December 2024
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Importance: Previous research suggests that a greater capacity of health care organizations to address patients' health-related social needs (HRSNs) is associated with lower physician burnout. However, individual physician-level engagement in addressing HRSNs has not been fully characterized, and its association with physician burnout remains understudied.
Objective: To characterize physicians' engagement in addressing HRSNs and examine its association with burnout.
Front Glob Womens Health
December 2024
Department of Community Medicine, KMCH Institute of Health Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, India.
Objective: To examine women's perceptions of modern menstrual hygiene methods (MMHM), such as tampons and menstrual cups, focusing on socio-demographic variations and special groups in the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu.
Methods: A qualitative study among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) group was conducted using Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) among twelve women subgroups independently in 2023.
Results: The present study involved 23 focus group discussions (FGDs) across various groups of women, including those in formal and informal sectors, urban and rural areas, school and college students, healthcare workers, women in sports, tribal women, transgender women, and female sex workers (FSW), with a total of 188 participants.
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!