I wanted to provide a forum for providers, medical students and community advocates and patients to share their stories, best practices and tips about how to make health care more LGBT-inclusive and competent.”įoster says mental illness, suicide, substance use, obesity and risk of heart disease, among other health outcomes, affect the LGBT population at higher levels compared to the population broadly. They have unique health care challenges that need to be addressed.
“We know that the LGBT community has disparate and almost uniformly worse health care outcomes compared to the general population. “I wanted to advance the state of LGBT health care education,” explains Foster. Haidn Foster, a second-year medical student at the University of Cincinnati, recently launched the online publication Pride in Practice to offer more comprehensive LGBT health care education for medical students, residents, physicians and other health care workers.
