Measuring Sexual and Gender Minority Populations in Health Surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) are underrepresented and information about SGMs is difficult to locate in national health surveillance data, and this limits identification and resolution of SGM health disparities. It is also not known how measures of sexual orientation and transgender-inclusive gender identity in health surveillance compare with best practice recommendations. This article reviews and summarizes the publicly available, English language, large-scale, rigorously sampled, national, international, and regional data sources that include sexual orientation or transgender-inclusive gender identity and compares measures with best practice guidelines.

Methods

A systematic review was undertaken of national, international, state, and regional health surveill

SUBMITTER: Patterson JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5404274 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature