Mortality among veterans with transgender-related diagnoses in the veterans health administration, FY2000-2009

LGBT Health

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 269-276

  Blosnich, John R ^a,b,c   Brown, George R ^d,e   Wojcio, Sybil ^f   Jones, Kenneth T ^d   Bossarte, Robert M ^b,f  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Veterans Administration Central Office   (United States)

^e East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^f VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention   (United States)

Author keywords

mortality; suicide; transgender persons; veterans

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969220043     PISSN: 23258292     EISSN: 23258306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lgbt.2014.0050     Document Type: Article

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