Promoting the successful development of sexual and gender minority youths

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 976-981

  Mayer, Kenneth H ^a   Garofalo, Robert ^b   Makadon, Harvey J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOMOPHOBIA; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MINORITY GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DISTANCE; TRANSSEXUALITY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HOMOPHOBIA; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL DISTANCE; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901019167     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301876     Document Type: Review

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