Boehmer Ulrike
Ulrike Boehmer is with Boston University, School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2002 Jul;92(7):1125-30. doi: 10.2105/ajph.92.7.1125.
This study determined to what extent lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations have been studied over the past 20 years of public health research.
From MEDLINE English-language articles on human subjects published between 1980 and 1999, I identified articles that included LGBT individuals. The abstracts were analyzed with a coding procedure that categorized the content by topic, sexual orientation, and race/ethnicity.
LGBT issues were addressed by 3777 articles, or 0.1% of all Medline articles; 61% of the articles were disease-specific, and 85% omitted reference to race/ethnicity. Research unrelated to sexually transmitted diseases addressed lesbians and gay men with similar frequency, whereas bisexual persons were less frequently considered, and the least amount of research focused on transgender individuals.
Findings supported that LGBT issues have been neglected by public health research and that research unrelated to sexually transmitted diseases is lacking.
本研究旨在确定在过去20年的公共卫生研究中，女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和跨性别者（LGBT）群体的研究程度。
从1980年至1999年间发表的关于人类受试者的MEDLINE英文文章中，我识别出包含LGBT个体的文章。通过编码程序对摘要进行分析，该程序按主题、性取向和种族/民族对内容进行分类。
3777篇文章涉及LGBT问题，占所有Medline文章的0.1%；61%的文章针对特定疾病，85%的文章未提及种族/民族。与性传播疾病无关的研究对女同性恋者和男同性恋者的关注频率相似，而双性恋者较少被关注，针对跨性别者的研究最少。
研究结果表明，公共卫生研究忽视了LGBT问题，且缺乏与性传播疾病无关的研究。
