LGBTQ+ Provider Guide Now Digital!
Equitas Health Institute Blog
by Liz Rose-Cohen
1y ago
The Equitas Health Institute Provider Guide is a listing of Ohio medical and social service providers who offer varying degrees and types of LGBTQ+ affirming care. Now you can search the guide by geographic region on our website! Providers listed in this guide answered “yes” to at least one of the following questions. When searching the guide, you’ll use tthe corresponding symbols to determine the nature of LGBTQ+ affirming services each provider offers. PROVIDER COLOR KEY: Has had LGBTQ-specific cultural competency training. Have you received any LGBTQ-specific competency training? Uses LGBTQ ..read more
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VARIAT Sim App Teaches Empathy
Equitas Health Institute Blog
by Liz Rose-Cohen
1y ago
When Nationwide Children’s Hospital developed the new app, VARIAT Sim (Virtual and Augmented Reality Implicit Association Training), they called on the expertise of the Equitas Health Institute to guide their module addressing implicit biases toward sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in a healthcare setting. The VARIAT Sim app provides healthcare workers an in-person, onsite perspective to promote empathy and decrease implicit bias. By successfully completing the SOGI module, Medicaid providers will:   Increase their awareness of implicit biases. Learn how biases and social d ..read more
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Breast/Chest Health and the LGBTQ+ Community
Equitas Health Institute Blog
by inst_admin
1y ago
Breast/Chest Health and the LGBTQ+ Community By Ramona Peel, Lead Trainer Every October, public spaces across the country are covered in black, orange, and pink. Halloween explains those first two colors, and the third is associated with breast cancer awareness. That campaign is necessary because breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and in many cases lives are cruelly cut short because the disease was too advanced at the point it was detected. We know that early detection of this sort of cancer can significantly increase a person’s chances of long ..read more
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National Transgender HIV Testing Day
Equitas Health Institute Blog
by inst_admin
1y ago
National Transgender HIV Testing Day By Ramona Peel, Lead Trainer With actions like the transgender troop ban, the current administration is directly targeting trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming folks and putting their health, wellness, and overall safety at risk. In addition to these sort of direct attacks, this administration’s attempts to weaken access to health care also puts additional stress on a population that already has an above-average need for health and wellness services. Thankfully, Equitas Health, along with a number of other organizations across Ohio, are working ever ..read more
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UPDATE: Trans Military Service in the United States
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by inst_admin
1y ago
UPDATE: Trans Military Service in the United States By Ramona Peel On Tuesday, January 22 the US Supreme Court lifted a number of lower court injunctions that were preventing President Trump’s proposed ban on transgender military service from going into effect. In brief, here’s where things stand: The ban still has not gone into effect, because the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision yesterday did not cover all of the various injunctions that had been filed. However, it is likely that those injunctions will be lifted as well. Yesterday’s decision is not the final word on the matter – The SCOT ..read more
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The Atomic Girl Who Roamed the Buckeye State
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by inst_admin
1y ago
The Atomic Girl Who Roamed the Buckeye State By Ramona Peel, Lead Trainer So… What does a lead trainer do? Actually, let me start earlier. I grew up next door to one of the largest nuclear waste sites in America. Just down the road from the birthplace of the Nagasaki bomb is Richland, Washington. I went to high school there. I was a Bomber. Yup, we’re the Richland Bombers. Google that. Crazy, right? I know – I’m totally mortified. On top of that, eastern Washington isn’t exactly a bastion of progressive thought. I knew that I was different than the other folks in my hometown, but I became adep ..read more
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Data “Invisibility” in LGBTQ+ Breast/Chest Health Disparities
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by Elisa Drewes
1y ago
Written by Rebecca Harris. Research Intern Why is it that LGBTQ+ individuals are invisible when it comes to understanding the burden and reasons for breast/chest disparities in their population? It is because they are invisible in the data. Although LGBTQ+ breast/chest health data does exist, there is a lack of specificity and inclusion in data collection. In other words, this important data could give answers to why LGBTQ+ folx experience breast/chest health issues at disproportionate rates. Sometimes in research, sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data is not collected. This can t ..read more
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Tobacco Messaging and Queer Women
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by Elisa Drewes
1y ago
Equitas Health Institute is serving on the study team for a five year NIH funded study, Project RESIST, which is determining the effects of tobacco messaging and marketing on young adult sexual minority women. The Institute’s director, Julia Applegate, serves on the expert advisory committee for the study ..read more
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The State of Breast and Chest Tissue Health of Sexual and Gender Minorities
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by Liz Rose-Cohen
1y ago
A report by Fung et al. (2019) suggests that sexual and gender minority individuals (SGM) may have a higher risk than their cisgender, heterosexual counterparts for breast/chest tissue cancer. Past negative experience with healthcare providers has been reported to prevent SGM from seeking care that is beneficial to their health. Milner & McNally (2020) reported that psychological barriers and non-disclosure of sexual identity due to fear of bias, discrimination, and stigma hindered adherence to mammography screening guidelines for lesbian, bisexual and transgender identified folx. Read Mor ..read more
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COVID-19 and the Systemic Impact on Health Outcomes
Equitas Health Institute Blog
by Liz Rose-Cohen
1y ago
Public health crises highlight already existing disparities that are often unseen or overlooked. In the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting changes to society have severely affected populations worldwide. While mortality is but one measure of the severity of the pandemic, the numbers continue to rise with scores of individuals infected daily. As reported by the Centers for Disease Control on April 1, 2021, the nationwide impact of COVID-19 has resulted in the deaths of nearly 591,000 people and 33 million total cases since January 2020 (Centers for Disease Control, 2021a). Despi ..read more
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