ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2021
Sexual Identity Differences in Access to and Satisfaction With Health Care: Findings From Nationally Representative Data.
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- Investigating the Joint Effect of Allostatic Load among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults with Risk of Cancer Mortality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Sexual Minority Status Disparities in Life's Essential 8 and Life's Simple 7 Cardiovascular Health Scores: A French Nationwide Population-Based Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
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- Sociodemographic factors and perceived patient-provider communication associated with healthcare avoidance among women with psychological distress.PEC innovation · 2022Article
- Smoking Intervention Practices in Texas Healthcare Centers with Sexual and Gender Minority Patients.Health behavior and policy review · 2022Article
- Trends in Health Care Access/Experiences: Differential Gains across Sexuality and Sex Intersections before and after Marriage Equality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Disparities in Mental Health Care Access Among Persons Differing in Sexual Identity: Nationally Representative Findings.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Article
- Alcohol use, behavioral and mental health help-seeking, and treatment satisfaction among sexual minority women.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
- Preferences and Barriers to Counseling for and Treatment of Intimate Partner Violence, Depression, Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Postpartum Women: Study Protocol of the Cross-Sectional Study INVITE.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
Identification of barriers to adequate health care for sexual minority populations remains elusive given that they are complex and variable across sexual orientation subgroups (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual). To address these complexities, we used data from a US nationally representative sample of health-care consumers to assess sexual identity differences in health-care access and satisfaction. We conducted a secondary data analysis of 12 waves (2012-2018) of the biannual Consumer Survey of Health Care Access (n = 30,548) to assess sexual identity differences in 6 health-care access and 3 health-care satisfaction indicators. Despite parity in health insurance coverage, sexual minorities-with some variation across sexual minority subgroups and sex-reported more chronic health conditions alongside restricted health-care access and unmet health-care needs. Gay/lesbian women had the lowest prevalence of health-care utilization and higher prevalence rates of delaying needed health care and medical tests relative to heterosexual women. Gay/lesbian women and bisexual men were less likely than their heterosexual counterparts to be able to pay for needed health-care services. Sexual minorities also reported less satisfactory experiences with medical providers. Examining barriers to health care among sexual minorities is critical to eliminating health disparities that disproportionately burden this population.
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