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Global health burden and needs of transgender populations: a review

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There are sufficient data highlighting the unique biological, behavioural, social, and structural contextual factors surrounding health risks and resiliencies for transgender people, and the need to explicitly consider sex and gender pathways in epidemiological research and public health surveillance more broadly.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2016-07-23 and is currently open access. It has received 828 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health equity & Population health.

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Gender inequality and restrictive gender norms: framing the challenges to health

TL;DR: This Series paper raises the parallel question of whether discrimination based on gender likewise becomes embodied, with negative consequences for health, as well as how gender-biased health research and health-care systems reinforce and reproduce gender inequalities, with serious implications for health.
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Estimating the Prevalence of HIV and Sexual Behaviors Among the US Transgender Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2006–2017

TL;DR: HIV prevalence estimates for US transwomen were lower than previous estimates, but estimates for HIV prevalence and participation in sex work were higher when compared with transmen.
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Gender, health and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development

TL;DR: This paper considers how gender interacts with the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, including sustainable development goal (SDG) 3 and its targets for health and well-being, and the impact on health equity, and proposes concerted and collaborative actions to enhance gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8

Eli Coleman, +118 more
TL;DR: The SOC-8 guidelines are intended to be flexible to meet the diverse health care needs of TGD people globally and offer standards for promoting optimal health care and guidance for the treatment of people experiencing gender incongruence.
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Constructing grounded theory : a practical guide through qualitative analysis

Kathy Charmaz
TL;DR: K Kathy Charmaz's excellent and practical guide to grounded theory in nursing and how to do qualitative research in nursing is welcomed.
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Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: conceptual issues and research evidence

TL;DR: It is shown that LGBs have a higher prevalence of mental disorders than heterosexuals and a conceptual framework is offered for understanding this excess in prevalence of disorder in terms of minority stress--explaining that stigma, prejudice, and discrimination create a hostile and stressful social environment that causes mental health problems.
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Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health

TL;DR: The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) as mentioned in this paper was created to marshal the evidence on what can be done to promote health equity and to foster a global movement to achieve it.

Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide through Qualitative Analysis

TL;DR: The Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide through Qualitative Analysis as mentioned in this paper, a practical guide through qualitative analysis through quantitative analysis, is a good starting point for such a study.
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Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being: a theory of gender and health.

TL;DR: How factors such as ethnicity, economic status, educational level, sexual orientation and social context influence the kind of masculinity that men construct and contribute to differential health risks among men in the United States is explored.
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