Health care needs and barriers to care among the transgender population: a study from western Rajasthan
Transgender people expressed the need for mental health services, programs targeting nutritional improvement, gender-affirmation procedures besides regular screening of non-communicable diseases as operational for males and females. Levels of barriers have been identified at various levels ranging from absence of targeted policies to individual behavior.
Authors
- Navdeep Kaur Ghuman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3981-6678)
- Madhukar Mittal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-5614)
- Nitin Kumar Joshi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5106-0455)
- Akhil Dhanesh Goel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6156-7903)
- Pankaj Bhardwaj (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9960-3060)
- Annu Choudhary (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2893-2267)
- Manoj Kumar Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5367-5795)
- Kajal Taluja
- Navratan Suthar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7879-1637)
- Tanvi Kaur Ahuja
- Swati Suman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1286-0286)
Institutions
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Health Services Research
- Published
- 2024-08-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11010-2
- Citations
- 11
- Primary Topic
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 7.08