Data move us closer to full equality by speaking for those who cannot: advocating for LGBT older adults

despite clear evidence for the need for these data to support LGBT communities, the Administration for Community Living is instead proposing to keep this population invisible. Data on the incidence ofHIV among gay and bisexual men and transgender women and glaring statistics on the estimated number of LGBT young people experiencing homelessness have yielded new federal funding for services and programs to reduce and eliminate these disparities.4,5 Decades of work showing the breadth of negative health outcomes reported by the community supported the recent designation of LGBT people as a health disparities population by the National Institutes of Health.6 EVIDENCE-BASED POLICYMAKING WITHOUT EVIDENCE To further merge research and practice, both the executive and the legislative branches of the federal government have taken up the mantle of evidence-based policymaking, including bipartisan passage of the appropriately named Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission Act of 2016. In addition to the proposed elimination of a question on the National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants, other negative actions include the Administration for Community Living halting the planned addition ofa question to identify LGBT people with disabilities on the Centers for Independent Living Program Performance Report; the US Department of Housing and Urban Development indicating that it may no longer evaluate the effectiveness of programs developed to reduce homelessness among LGBT youths in three US cities (apne.ws/2rc2ZHH); and the Census Bureau continuing to claim a lack of federal need to include sexual orientation and gender identity questions in the American Community Survey (bit.ly/2nhKWO2)..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:107

Enthalten in:

AJPH - 107(2017), 8, Seite 1219

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Durso, Laura E [VerfasserIn]

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44.10

Themen:

Adults
Aged
Analysis
Bisexual
Bisexuality
Census
Communities
Disabilities
Economic conditions
Economic forecasts
Economic indicators
Federal agencies
Federal government
Gender aspects
Government agencies
Health
Homelessness
Housing
Incidence
Management
Mantle
Men
Old people
Planning
Public health
Services
Sexual behavior
Sexual orientation
Statistical data
Surveys
Urban development
Urban planning
Young people

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RVK Klassifikation

doi:

10.2105/AJPH.2017.303915

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1996033727