This article explores health care issues of special concern to lesbians. Homophobia and challenges to accessing safe health care. Gynecological and breast health concerns.
This article is the fourth of a special issue of Healthsharing on the topic of women and therapy by The Feminist Therapy Study/Support Group. Examines whether institutions could be more intimate and more humane.
Discusses what patients really want from their health care providers, including answers to questions in easy-to-understand terms, how they will participate in their health care, seeing and sharing their health records, the right to a second opinion with no negative effects on their ongoing care, and being able to communicate with their providers outside of consultations.
Founded in 2000, PatientView is an independent, global, research-and-publishing organisation that works closely with patients and health and social campaigning groups worldwide. PatientView surveys the opinions of patients and health advocacy groups on healthcare delivery and disease-based issues worldwide, analyses trends, and places many of the resulting reports into the public domain (thereby benefiting patients, citizens, and health advocacy groups, as well as other healthcare stakeholders).
PatientView's expertise in the area of health campaigning is aided by two of its major resources. First, Health and Social Campaigners' Network International, a very large global virtual network of health campaigning groups; and second, PatientView Quarterly, a four-issues-per-year briefing document about the activities of health campaigners worldwide - free to health campaigners and available to other healthcare stakeholders on subscription.
