LGBT Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Wellness for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals and Communities

Although the federal government’s prevention agenda for the Nation, Healthy People 2010 (1), lays out an action plan for improving the health of all people in the United States, it neglects specific mention of the Nation’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people (GLBT) (2). To fill this gap, the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, developed a companion document toHealthy People 2010 (3) that gathered together existing quantitative and qualitative research and information specific to GLBT health in the areas defined inHealthy People 2010. This document discusses the health status of GLBT people in so far as data was available. Healthy People 2010 focuses, for the most part, on those health conditions (i.e., Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Infectious Diseases, Mental Disorders, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases), and