Health disparities among young adult sexual minorities in the U.S.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emerging research suggests that young adult sexual minorities (identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual or engaging in same-sex attractions or behaviors) experience poorer health than their majority counterparts, but many measures of health inequity remain unexamined in population-based research.

Purpose

To describe a wide range of health status and healthcare access characteristics of sexual minorities in comparison with those of the majority population in a national sample of U.S. young adults.

Methods

Binary and multinomial logistic regression analyses of Wave IV data (2008) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (participants aged 24-32 years, n=13,088) were conducted. Health measures were self-rated health; diagnosis of any of severa

SUBMITTER: Strutz KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4274226 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature