Sexual orientation disparities in physical health: age and gender effects in a population-based study

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 289-301

  Bränström, Richard ^a   Hatzenbuehler, Mark L ^b   Pachankis, John E ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gay bisexual; Health behaviors; Life span; Minority stress; Self rated health; Sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; LESBIANISM; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWEDEN; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957974581     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-015-1116-0     Document Type: Article

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