Harvard Study Finds LGB People Face Significant Barriers to Care and Poor Health Outcomes

Amid a wave of anti-LGBT laws, a newly published study in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in the US face substantial barriers to accessing care and have poorer health outcomes than their heterosexual peers. This comports with previous research showing how discrimination impacts LGBT life expectancy.

According to Jake Miller, “A 2014 study showed that LGB people living in communities with the highest levels of prejudice against sexual minorities die, on average, 12 years sooner than peers in communities with the lowest anti-LGB prejudice, even when other individual-level and community-level factors such as preexisting illness are accounted for.”

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(Source: Harvard Medical School, February 20^th, 2023)