Alex Keuroghlian, Jennifer Potter, Sari L. Reisner

Broschiertes Buch

Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: The Fenway Guide

Beschreibung

The first case-based comprehensive textbook to address the unique health care needs of transgender and gender diverse adults A Doody's Core Title for 2024 & 2023! Demand for state-of-the-art health care services for transgender and gender diverse communities is rapidly increasing. Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: The Fenway Guide offers a roadmap for clinicians to provide culturally responsive care that meets the primary, preventive, and specialty health needs of transgender and gender diverse adult patients. With the most up-to-date scientific and clinical information, this practical guide reviews new data on terminology, demographics, and epidemiology; highlights key aspects of gender identity emergence across the lifespan; and provides guidance on both hormonal and surgical gender affirmation. Applying a health-equity model of care, this invaluable resource offers a foundation for clinicians when addressing health needs of transgender and gender diverse communities. Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: The Fenway Guide features essential information that includes the following topics and more: * The history and epidemiology of transgender and gender diverse health care * Primary, preventive, and specialty care considerations for transgender and gender diverse patients * Hormonal, surgical and non-medical gender affirmation * Trauma-informed and gender-affirming care * Behavior health, eating disorders and body positivity * Reproductive health, obstetrical care, and family building * Treatment of HIV and sexually transmitted infections * Community building, advocacy and partnership

Autor

Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH, is associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Gender Identity Program; director of the Division of Education and Training at The Fenway Institute. Jennifer Potter, MD, is professor of medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; co-chair and director of the LGBTQIA+ Population Health Program, The Fenway Institute; and advisory dean and director, William B. Castle Society, Harvard Medical School. Sari L. Reisner, ScD, is assistant professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; associate scientific researcher, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital; and affiliated research scientist, The Fenway Institute.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 185mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781260459937
• ISBN-10: 1260459934
• Artikelnr.: 62030735