Delivering Culturally Safe Clinical Care to LGBTQIA+ Populations: A Guide to Health Equity

Strive for health equity and overcome institutional oppression when treating marginalized populations with this distinct resource. This unique text provides a framework for delivering culturally safe clinical care to LGBTQIA+ populations, filtered through the lens of racial, economic, and reproductive justice.

Understanding the Social Context of Healthcare

The social context in which we live is shaped by multiple historical processes of oppression, which continue to manifest as injustices in the healthcare setting and beyond. This text acknowledges the shared experiences of a diverse group of expert healthcare practitioners, offering abundant examples, case studies, recommendations, and the most up-to-date guidelines available for treating LGBTQIA+ patient populations.

Clinical Scenarios and Best Practices

Rich in clinical scenarios, this text describes best practices for safely treating patients, featuring varied healthcare frameworks encompassing patient-centered and community-centered care. It considers the intersecting and ongoing processes of oppression that impact LGBTQIA+ people every day, particularly people of color.

Safe and Culturally Appropriate Language

This text helps healthcare providers incorporate safe and culturally appropriate language into their care, understand the roots and impact of stigma, address issues of health disparities, and recognize and avoid racial or LGBTQIA+ microaggressions.

Specific Approaches to Care

Specific approaches to care include chapters on:

• Sexual healthcare
• Perinatal care
• Information about pregnancy and postpartum care for transgender and gender-expansive people

Key Features

This text features:

• Patient-centered care incorporating an understanding of patient histories, safety needs, and power imbalances
• Tools for clinician self-reflection to understand and alleviate implicit bias
• Culturally safe language and communication skills
• Abundant patient scenarios, including specific dos and don’ts in patient treatment
• Concrete objectives, conclusions, terminology, and references in each chapter
• Discussion questions to promote critical thought
• Charts and information boxes to illuminate key information

By incorporating these key features, healthcare providers can deliver culturally safe clinical care to LGBTQIA+ populations, promoting health equity and overcoming institutional oppression.

Product Details

Published by Springer Publishing Company, this text is available in English and is supported by screen readers.