Access to Care for Transgender Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration: 2006–2013 | Zendy

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Access to Care for Transgender Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration: 2006–2013

Author(s) -

Michael R. Kauth,

Jillian C. Shipherd,

Jan A. Lindsay,

John R. Blosnich,

George R. Brown,

Kenneth T. Jones

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2014.302086

Subject(s) - transgender , administration (probate law) , directive , medicine , veterans affairs , health care , family medicine , medline , gerontology , psychology , political science , computer science , psychoanalysis , law , programming language

A 2011 Veterans Health Administration directive mandated medically necessary care for transgender veterans. Internal education efforts informed staff of the directive and promoted greater access to care. For fiscal years 2006 through 2013, we identified 2662 unique individuals with International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision diagnoses related to transgender status in Veterans Health Administration medical records, with 40% of new cases in the 2 years following the directive. A bottom-up push for services by veterans and top-down education likely worked synergistically to speed implementation of the new policy and increase access to care.

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