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Lgbtq+ Health Disparities: Healthcare Intervention, Kara Steinbrecher
Lgbtq+ Health Disparities: Healthcare Intervention, Kara Steinbrecher
The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing Undergraduate Honors Theses
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community has carried the burden of countless health disparities throughout its history tied to discrimination, bias, prejudice, and stigma. LGBTQ+ individuals are disproportionately at higher risk for substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, cardiovascular disease, mental illness, suicide, and unequal access to healthcare, related to social stigma and bias that exists in healthcare itself. The purpose of this systematic literature review is to analyze existing health disparities among the LGBTQ+ population in the United States and the efficacy of various interventions of health care professionals to reduce them. Twenty-one articles from multiple online …
Respiratory Illness And Household Air Pollution: Problem Identification And Intervention, Hannah Flournoy
Respiratory Illness And Household Air Pollution: Problem Identification And Intervention, Hannah Flournoy
The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing Undergraduate Honors Theses
This study is an expanded literature review that identifies the key concepts of Household Air Pollution (HAP) and the relationship it has with respiratory illness. This study identifies twenty research studies that inspect HAP and respiratory symptoms across a number of communities that utilize biomass fuel as their primary fuel source. It seeks to identify the problems that come with HAP, such as childhood respiratory infection, COPD, and other respiratory illnesses. This review seeks to identify if people in low to middle income countries, who utilize biomass fuel sources, see and improved respiratory outcome from using modern cookstoves and other …