Healthy {Transgender} People 2020

Healthy People Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For 3 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to: Encourage collaborations across sectors. Guide individuals toward making informed health decisions. Measure the impact of prevention activities. Introducing Healthy {Transgender} People 2020 Healthy People 2020 continues in this tradition with the launch on December 2, 2010 of its ambitious, yet achievable, 10-year agenda for improving the Nation’s health. Healthy People 2020 is the result of a multiyear process that reflects input from a diverse group of {Transgender} individuals and {Transgender} organizations. Vision A society in which all people live long, healthy lives. Mission Healthy People 2020 strives to: Identify nationwide health improvement priorities. Increase public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease, and disability and the opportunities for progress. Provide measurable objectives and goals that are applicable at the national, State, and local levels. Engage multiple sectors to take actions to strengthen policies and improve practices that are driven by the best available evidence and knowledge. Identify critical research, evaluation, and data collection needs. Overarching Goals Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all. Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages. Healthy People 2020 Transgender Health Fact Sheet Transgender is a term inclusive of a range of transgender, transsexual, and gender variant identities of people who no longer express or identify their genders with their birth sex. Transgender people include transgender women (natal males with feminine gender identities, sometimes referred to as Male-to-Females, or MTFs); transgender men (natal females with masculine gender identities, often referred to as Female-to-Males, or FTMs); and others who self-identify using over 100 identity terms, including many that extend beyond the traditional gender binary choices. There are no reliable estimates of the size of this population, and previous population estimates have focused solely on the transsexual minority of those who present for diagnosis and treatment for medical transition to the opposite gender. Moreover, traditional epidemiology methods conflate sex and gender, viewing them not only as static but also limited to the traditional binary choices of male and female. Nevertheless, public health research, spurred by the HIV/AIDS epidemic over the last 20 years, has shed light on the health disparities endured by this socially stigmatized and heavily marginalized population. This fact sheet reviews epidemiological data reported in behavioral risk studies and needs assessment surveys obtained from convenience samples of 50 to 517 transgender participants conducted in the U.S. and published from 1993 to 2010. The findings are grouped by Healthy People 2020 topic area... {Transgender} Topics discussed include: ·         Access to Health Services ·         HIV ·         Immunization and Infectious Diseases ·         Injury and Violence Prevention ·         Mental Health and Mental Disorders  ·         Public Health Infrastructure ·         Sexually Transmitted Diseases ·         Substance Abuse  ·         Tobacco Use Read full report