Health correlates of criminal justice involvement in 4,793 transgender veterans

LGBT Health

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 297-305

  Brown, George R ^a,b   Jones, Kenneth T ^c  

^a Mountain Home Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

disparity; incarceration; justice; transgender; veteran

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOMELESS PERSON; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PRISONER; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSGENDER; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PRISONERS; SEX OFFENSES; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSGENDER PERSONS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 84969194539     PISSN: 23258292     EISSN: 23258306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lgbt.2015.0052     Document Type: Article

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