Comprehensive Transgender Healthcare: The Gender Affirming Clinical and Public Health Model of Fenway Health

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 584-592

  Reisner, Sari L ^a,b   Bradford, Judith ^a,c   Hopwood, Ruben ^d,e   Gonzalez, Alex ^d   Makadon, Harvey ^a,f   Todisco, David ^d   Cavanaugh, Timothy ^d   VanDerwarker, Rodney ^g   Grasso, Chris ^a   Zaslow, Shayne ^a   Boswell, Stephen L ^g   Mayer, Kenneth ^a,b,f  

^a FENWAY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Transgender Health Program Medical and Behavioral Health Departments Fenway Health   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g Executive Office Fenway Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Health care; Health equity; Transgender

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSGENDER;

ADULT; BOSTON; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRANSGENDER PERSONS;

EID: 84930384600     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-015-9947-2     Document Type: Article

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