Project Title
Health Experiences in the LGBTQ+ Community: An Ethnographic Analysis with Recommendations
Abstract/Description
This article aims to share and raise awareness of LGBTQ+ realities in healthcare. It explores the reality of discrimination and disparities in healthcare faced by LGBTQ+ people and recommendations to work towards a system that recognizes the unique challenges and circumstances LGBTQ+ people face that are influenced by social and environmental factors. This article uses Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach (1979), as well as Martha Nussbaum’s revisions to that approach (2011), and Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory (1979) to analyze the experiences of participants who are LGBTQ and healthcare professionals. This article also uses Glynos and Howarth’s model of practices and regimes (2008) and Kimberle Crenshaw’s intersectional theory (1989). Lastly, this article offers recommendations suggested by interviewees and informed by research.
Recommended Citation
Davis, Tyler
(2021).
Health Experiences in the LGBTQ+ Community: An Ethnographic Analysis with Recommendations.
Undergraduate Review, 16, 81-90.
Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/undergrad_rev/vol16/iss1/12
Rights Statement
Articles published in The Undergraduate Review are the property of the individual contributors and may not be reprinted, reformatted, repurposed or duplicated, without the contributor’s consent.