Environmental Exposure Inequities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Populations in the United States: A Scoping Review.

IF 2.3 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Environmental Health Insights Pub Date : 2024-10-30 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1177/11786302241296225
Nicholas A Carlisle, Sarah MacCarthy, Karlie Burrell, Jeffrey Wickliffe
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Despite growing attention and guiding frameworks, we still know very little about how environmental exposures may be contributing to the health inequities experienced by sexual and gender minority (SGM) people, especially exposures beyond psycho-behavioral mechanisms that have traditionally been viewed as the pathways between minority stress and negative health outcomes. To address this gap in knowledge, we conducted a scoping review to determine the extent to which disparities in environmental exposures between SGM and non-SGM (ie, heterosexual and cisgender) populations have been measured in the United States. We searched PubMed for studies that were (1) peer-reviewed; (2) written in English; (3) quantitatively measured environmental exposures; (4) included 1 or more groups identifying as a sexual minority, gender minority, or both; (5) compared to the general population; (6) in the United States; and (7) published on or after January 1, 2011. Our scoping review identified very few studies that examined and documented environmental exposure disparities between SGM and non-SGM populations in the United States. These studies focused mostly on cigarette smoke exposures. None examined environmental exposure disparities between gender minority and cisgender populations. To address this critical gap in environmental health research for SGM populations in the short term, researchers can merge existing environmental data (eg, data from the Environmental Protection Agency) with SGM population data. Longer-term solutions require systematically including validated sexual orientation and gender identity measures across federal, state, and local datasets, as well as increased funding for original research that explores diverse environmental exposures. Taken together, these efforts can significantly advance our ability to identify and address environmental health inequities experienced by SGM people.

美国性少数群体和性别少数群体在环境暴露方面的不平等:范围审查》。
尽管关注度和指导框架不断增加,但我们对环境暴露如何导致性少数群体和性别少数群体(SGM)健康不平等仍然知之甚少,尤其是传统上被视为少数群体压力和负面健康结果之间途径的心理行为机制以外的暴露。为了填补这一知识空白,我们进行了一次范围审查,以确定美国在多大程度上测量了 SGM 与非 SGM(即异性恋和顺性别)人群在环境暴露方面的差异。我们在 PubMed 上搜索了以下内容的研究:(1)经同行评审;(2)用英语撰写;(3)定量测量环境暴露;(4)包括一个或多个性少数群体、性别少数群体或两者;(5)与普通人群进行比较;(6)在美国;(7)2011 年 1 月 1 日或之后发表。我们的范围界定审查发现,只有极少数研究审查并记录了美国性少数群体与非性少数群体之间的环境暴露差异。这些研究主要集中在香烟烟雾暴露方面。没有一项研究考察了性别少数人群和顺性别人群在环境暴露方面的差异。为了在短期内解决 SGM 群体环境健康研究中的这一关键差距,研究人员可以将现有的环境数据(如环境保护局的数据)与 SGM 人口数据合并。长期的解决方案需要在联邦、州和地方数据集中系统地纳入经过验证的性取向和性别认同测量方法,并增加对探索不同环境暴露的原创性研究的资助。这些努力合在一起,可以大大提高我们识别和解决 SGM 人环境健康不平等问题的能力。
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Environmental Health Insights
Environmental Health Insights PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-
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