ArticleMilitary medicine2013
Health care utilization and health indicators among a national sample of U.S. veterans in same-sex partnerships.
Article in Military medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Sexual Orientation Differences in Gun Ownership and Beliefs About Gun Safety Policy, General Social Survey 2010-2016.Violence and gender · 2020Article
- Race/Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation Disparities in Mental Health, Sexism, and Social Support among Women Veterans.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2019Article
- Evidence Review-Social Determinants of Health for Veterans.Journal of general internal medicine · 2018Review
- Mortality in Postmenopausal Women by Sexual Orientation and Veteran Status.The Gerontologist · 2016Observational
- Suicidality among veterans: implications of sexual minority status.American journal of public health · 2014Article
- Sexual and Gender Minority Status and Firearms in the Household: Findings From the 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Surveys, California and Texas.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo examine health indicators of same-sex partnered veterans as compared with their opposite-sex partnered veteran and nonveteran peers.
methodsSame-sex partner status was derived by self-reported same-sex partnerships in data from the 2004 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Outcome variables included health risk disparities associated with sexual minority status (e.g., frequent mental distress) and veteran status (e.g., firearm ownership). Stratified multiple logistic regression models were used to examine the association of same-sex partnered veteran status with health indicators.
resultsSame-sex partnered veterans had higher odds of being overweight and keeping firearms in the house compared with same-sex partnered nonveterans. Same-sex partnered veterans were less likely than opposite-sex partnered veterans to be overweight, and they were more than twice as likely to be current smokers when compared with opposite-sex partnered nonveterans.
conclusionsFindings suggest both that some health disparities patterns identified by same-sex partnership status among the general population also exist among veteran populations, and that some unique distinctions may exist, particularly related to BMI and firearm ownership. Collection of information about sexual minority status within Department of Veterans Affairs data sources is needed to more accurately assess the health of this minority population.
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