Sexual minority health inequities across the lifecourse: a multi-method, multi-dataset investigation

Lead Research Organisation: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Department Name: Epidemiology and Public Health

Abstract

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Studentship Projects

Project Reference Relationship Related To Start End Student Name
ES/P000347/1 30/09/2017 29/09/2024
2259640 Studentship ES/P000347/1 30/09/2019 31/12/2023 Evangeline Tabor
 
Description This work found that sexual minority people (i.e. gay, lesbian and bisexual people) in the UK were more likely to have asthma than heterosexual people. In addition, the works suggests that sexual minority people may develop cardiovascular disease and diabetes at a younger age (i.e. in early midlife) than heterosexual people.
In addition to the health findings, this work contributes to ongoing conversations regarding measurement and collection of sexuality data in the UK.
Exploitation Route LGBTQ+ and sexual minority physical health is a neglected field, particularly in the UK. This work adds substantially to understandings of patterns and pathways of physical health inequalities for sexual minority people in the UK. As well as their academic interest, these findings are of relevance to members of the public, in particular LGBTQ+ communities, to clinical practitioners, and to policy-makers in the health and social care fields. This research responds to calls for improved and expanded evidence in LGBTQ+ by the NHS LGBT Health Advisor, Dr Michael Brady and the 2018 Government Equalities Office LGBT Action Plan . In particular, the research described in this work can assist in improving health and wellbeing in sexual minority people through identifying risks and points of intervention, educating practitioners interacting with LGBTQ+ people, and highlighting the impact of historic and contemporary social inequality.
Sectors Communities and Social Services/Policy

Healthcare
 
Description LGBTQ+ and sexual minority physical health is a neglected field, particularly in the UK. The thesis adds substantially to understandings of patterns and pathways of physical health inequalities for sexual minority people in the UK. As well as their academic interest, these findings are of relevance to members of the public, in particular LGBTQ+ communities, to clinical practitioners, and to policy-makers in the health and social care fields. This research responds to calls for improved and expanded evidence in LGBTQ+ by the NHS LGBT Health Advisor, Dr Michael Brady and the 2018 Government Equalities Office LGBT Action Plan (GEO, 2018a; NHS, 2023a). In particular, the research described in this thesis can assist in improving health and wellbeing in sexual minority people through identifying risks and points of intervention, educating practitioners interacting with LGBTQ+ people, and highlighting the impact of historic and contemporary social inequality. This work has been presented at conferences and will be published in future journal articles. In addition to the health findings, this thesis contributes to ongoing conversations regarding measurement and collection of sexuality data in the UK. As part of the work conducted during this thesis project, I published a comment in The Lancet Public Health with colleagues critiquing the landscape of sexuality data collection in UK longitudinal studies (Tabor, Kneale and Patalay, 2023). In addition, I have been consulted by the Millenium Cohort Study and the National Survey of Health and Development regarding their future collections of sexual identity and appropriate collection of anthropometric measures from gender minority participants.
First Year Of Impact 2023
Sector Communities and Social Services/Policy,Healthcare
Impact Types Societal

Policy & public services