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Stigma-related access barriers and violence against trans women in the Colombian healthcare system
- Source :
- Global Public Health. 13:1831-1845
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2018.
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Abstract
- Drawing from qualitative research conducted in a participatory action research framework with 28 transgender women in Colombia, this paper presents the stigma-related barriers to healthcare experienced by trans women and their experiences of multi-level violence within the healthcare system. The authors also discuss how advocacy work was conducted as part of the research process and how trans community leaders were involved throughout the project in order to promote policy-relevance and community-based implementation of findings. The paper concludes with a discussion of how the experiences of violence and stigmatisation within the health care system is linked to broader processes of structural stigma reproduced within Colombian society.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Community-Based Participatory Research
Social Stigma
Participatory action research
Stigma (botany)
HIV Infections
Colombia
Violence
Transgender Persons
Structural stigma
Health Services Accessibility
Transgender women
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
Health care
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Sociology
030505 public health
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Middle Aged
Public relations
Social Class
Work (electrical)
Female
0305 other medical science
business
Delivery of Health Care
Qualitative research
Healthcare system
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17441706 and 17441692
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Global Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....20f89df1c63daec72937429f20c2857b