Transgender Health: New Zealand's Innovative Statistical Standard for Gender Identity

national governments and international organizations such as the US Department of Health and Human Services and the UN Programme on HIV/ AIDS have now dedicated policies and action plans for this purpose.11,12 These initiatives generally acknowledge transgender people's human rights to freedom from discrimination and to health.7,13 OFFICIAL DATA ON GENDER IDENTITY High-quality gender identity data disrupt the familiar mantra of "no data, no problem, no action." THE STATISTICAL STANDARD FOR GENDER IDENTITY New Zealand is a country where transgender communities' and human rights institutions' advocacy has resulted in some progressive government policies supporting transgender people's health.\n Implementation of the standard in New Zealand's health records, population surveys, and the census will improve national population prevalence and other demographic estimates and health services and outcomes monitoring, and this evidence will enable the design, cost, implementation, and evaluation of health policies and services for transgender populations..

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Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:107

Enthalten in:

AJPH - 107(2017), 2, Seite 217

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Frank Pega [VerfasserIn]
Sari L Reisner [Sonstige Person]
Randall L Sell [Sonstige Person]
Jaimie F Veale [Sonstige Person]

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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome--AIDS
Gays & lesbians
Gender identity
Human immunodeficiency virus--HIV
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doi:

10.2105/AJPH.2016.303465

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OLC1990735878