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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correlates of same-sex sexual behaviors, attractions and nonheterosexual sexual identity in a Turkish sample

open access: yesNeuropsychiatric Investigation, 2016
Objective: Nonheterosexual sexual orientation is an under researched topic in Muslim countries. The present study aimed at investigating aspects of same-sex sexual orientation in the Turkish cultural context.
Mehmet Eskin
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Gay-Themed Advertising among Young Heterosexual Adults from U.S. and South Korea

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2019
Little research has been conducted to explain the effects of gay-themed advertising in a cross-cultural context. Such research has been particularly scarce in South Korea. This study is designed to investigate the effects of cultural orientation, gender,
Namhyun Um, Dong Hoo Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Queer Representation in Arab and Middle Eastern Films: A Case Study of Women in Caramel (2007), Circumstance (2011), and In Between (2016)

open access: yesAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2021
Queer representations have been present since the 1930s in Arab and Middle Eastern cinema, albeit always in coded forms. However, the idea of homosexuality or queerness in the Middle East is still not tolerated due to religious, political, social and ...
Maria Abdel Karim
doaj   +1 more source

What Does the Creation Story Tell about Homosexuality?

open access: yesTheoRhēma, 2023
This study examines the issue of homosexuality in the Genesis creation story. The first two chapters of the Hebrew Bible do not deal directly with homosexuality.
Jaeyoung Sim
doaj   +2 more sources

Structural connections in the brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2017
Both transgenderism and homosexuality are facets of human biology, believed to derive from different sexual differentiation of the brain. The two phenomena are, however, fundamentally unalike, despite an increased prevalence of homosexuality among ...
Sarah M. Burke   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cigarette smoking disparities among sexual minority cancer survivors

open access: yesPreventive Medicine Reports, 2015
Objective: Sexual minority (i.e., lesbian, gay, and bisexual) adults smoke cigarettes at higher rates than heterosexual adults. Smoking after receiving a cancer diagnosis is a major health concern, yet risk of continued smoking among sexual minority ...
Charles Kamen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

New forms of masculinity in Western films: The end of the Marlboro Man?

open access: yesCommunication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2021
Westerns are one of the most masculine and stereotypical of film genres. In a social and film context where gender equality is increasingly important, it is worth looking at the evolution of the genre in recent years.
David Blanco-Herrero   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Intervention for Clinical Medical Students on LGBTI Health

open access: yesMedEdPORTAL, 2013
Introduction Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals face well-documented structural, financial, personal, and cultural barriers when accessing and receiving health care services.
William Sullivan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

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