Ensuring appropriate care for LGBT veterans in the veterans health administration

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 44, Issue , 2014, Pages S53-S55

  Sharpe, Virginia Ashby ^a   Uchendu, Uchenna S ^b  

^a Veterans Health Administration's National Center for Ethics in Health Care   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOETHICS; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREJUDICE; SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY; SOCIAL STIGMA; VETERAN;

BIOETHICAL ISSUES; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES; SOCIAL STIGMA; VETERANS;

EID: 84916933355     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: 1552146X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hast.372     Document Type: Article

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