Environmental Exposure Inequities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Populations in the United States: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: Despite growing attention and guiding frameworks, we still know very little about how environmental exposures may be contributing to the health inequities experienced by sexual and gender minority (SGM) people, especially exposures beyond psycho-behavioral mechanisms that have traditionally been viewed as the pathways between minority stress and negative health outcomes. To address this gap in knowledge, we conducted a scoping review to determine the extent to which disparities in environmental exposures between SGM and non-SGM (ie, heterosexual and cisgender) populations have been measured in the United States. We searched PubMed for studies that were (1) peer-reviewed; (2) written in English; (3) quantitatively measured environmental exposures; (4) included 1 or more groups identifying a

SUBMITTER: Carlisle NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11528665 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature