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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
3253.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Panel Discussion | |||
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| Discrimination against transgender and transsexual individuals can make access to health services highly problematic. Health care service providers have found that getting transpeople the services they need (e.g. substance use treatment, housing, primary care) is difficult because providers may not want to work with trans-identified clients. Further, lack of sensitivity on the part of health care providers themselves can adversely influence whether Transpeople will access and stay in treatment. As indicated in a resolution passed by the American Public Health Association (March, 2000), a knowledge base must be built to aid health care providers in developing policies to increase their effectiveness when working with transpeople. This peer-based session is a gathering of leading transhealth advocates working in clinic settings, AIDS service organizations and grassroots community coalitions. It is designed to fill the existing knowledge gap by exposing audience members to issues of barriers to access, explaining existing transhealth care delivery models and protocols, as well as facilitating a public discussion of these little addressed issues. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant in this session will be able to: 1. Identify multiple barriers to accessing transhealthcare including provider's attitudes and systemic erasure via categories and practices that are gender binary based. 2. Define specific issues of Transpeople of Color and the impacts on obtaining health care. 3. Describe future trends for the provision of transhealth care in the U.S. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Ben Singer Jodi Sperber, MSW, MPH Jordan Asia Blaza Emilia Lombardi, PhD Jessica Xavier Sage Bernard Foster, MA | |||
| Kevin Roe | |||
| TransHealth: Transgender/Transsexual Health Activists Discuss the Future Ben Singer | |||
| TransHealth: Transgender/Transsexual Health Activists Discuss the Future Jodi Sperber, MSW, MPH | |||
| TransHealth: Transgender/Transsexual Health Activists Discuss the Future Emilia Lombardi, PhD | |||
| TransHealth Roundtable Jessica Xavier | |||
| Transgender/Transsexual Health Activists Discuss the Future | |||
| Organized by: | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus of Public Health Workers | ||
| Endorsed by: | School Health Education and Services; Socialist Caucus; Spirit of 1848 Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | ||