Contextualizing Competence: Language and LGBT-Based Competency in Health Care

Journal of Homosexuality

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1330-1349

  Rossi, Alexis L ^a   Lopez, Eliot J ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Competence; healthcare; language; LGBT

Indexed keywords

BISEXUALITY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; PREJUDICE; SEXUAL MINORITY; STANDARDS; TRANSGENDER; TRANSSEXUALISM;

BISEXUALITY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREJUDICE; SEXUAL MINORITIES; TRANSGENDER PERSONS; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 85021456127     PISSN: 00918369     EISSN: 15403602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2017.1321361     Document Type: Article

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