New psychological assessment tools for transgender people

Screening programs overlook transgender people.

Putting the t in tools: a roadmap for implementation of new global and regional transgender guidance

Transgender (trans) activists and global health partners have collaborated to develop new tools and guidance for assessing and addressing HIV and other health needs within trans populations. Trans women experience a heavy burden of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), high incidence of violence and difficulties accessing gender-affirming services. At the same time, little has b...

Structural Connectivity Networks of Transgender People

Although previous investigations of transsexual people have focused on regional brain alterations, evaluations on a network level, especially those structural in nature, are largely missing. Therefore, we investigated the structural connectome of 23 female-to-male (FtM) and 21 male-to-female (MtF) transgender patients before hormone therapy as compared with 25 female and 25 male healthy control...

Ensuring an inclusive global health agenda for transgender people

Perspectives There is a growing commitment in public health to understand and improve the health and well-being of transgender people and other gender minorities, who comprise an estimated 0.3–0.5% (25 million) of the global population. 1 The adoption of The 2030 agenda for sustainable development and its pledge to " leave no one behind " has given renewed impetus to this movement. 2 Transgende...

Pain assessment for people with dementia: a systematic review of systematic reviews of pain assessment tools

BACKGROUND There is evidence of under-detection and poor management of pain in patients with dementia, in both long-term and acute care. Accurate assessment of pain in people with dementia is challenging and pain assessment tools have received considerable attention over the years, with an increasing number of tools made available. Systematic reviews on the evidence of their validity and utilit...