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Structure Transphobia, Homophobia, and Biphobia in Public Health Practice: The Example of COVID-19 Surveillance
American journal of public health (1971), v 111(9), pp 1620-1626
01 Sep 2021
PMID: 34111944
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Abstract
Public health surveillance can have profound impacts on the health of populations, with COVID-19 surveillance offering an illuminating example. Surveillance surrounding COVID-19 testing, confirmed cases, and deaths has provided essential information to public health professionals about how to minimize morbidity and mortality.
In the United States, surveillance has also pointed out how populations, on the basis of geography, age, and race and ethnicity, are being impacted disproportionately, allowing targeted intervention and evaluation. However, COVID-19 surveillance has also highlighted how the public health surveillance system fails some communities, including sexual and gender minorities. This failure has come about because of the haphazard and disorganized way disease reporting data are collected, analyzed, and reported in the United States, and the structural homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia acting within these systems.
We provide recommendations for addressing these concerns after examining experiences collecting race data in COVID-19 surveillance and attempts in Pennsylvania and California to incorporate sexual orientation and gender identity variables into their pandemic surveillance efforts.
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- Title
- Structure Transphobia, Homophobia, and Biphobia in Public Health Practice: The Example of COVID-19 Surveillance
- Creators
- Randall L. Sell - Drexel UniversityElise Krims - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- American journal of public health (1971), v 111(9), pp 1620-1626
- Publisher
- Amer Public Health Assoc Inc
- Number of pages
- 7
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Community Health and Prevention
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000744578900021
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85117426370
- Other Identifier
- 991019167869204721
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