Endocrine Health and Health Care Disparities in the Pediatric and Sexual and Gender Minority Populations: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement
Recommendations
As issued by the authors
Multilevel interventions to address these disparities are required.
Inclusion of racial, ethnic and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) populations in longitudinal life course studies is needed to assess growth, puberty and attainment of peak bone mass.
Growth and development charts may need to be adapted to non-European populations.
Extension of these studies will be required to understand the clinical and physiologic consequences of interventions to address abnormal development in these populations.
Health policies should be recrafted to remove barriers in care for children with obesity and/or diabetes and for LGBTQIA children and adults, to facilitate comprehensive access to care, therapeutics and technological advances.
Public health interventions, including collection of accurate demographic and social needs data and population health level interventions, will be essential tools.
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