Researchers from University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Describe Findings in Transgender Health (Health Insurance Prevalence Among Gender Minority People: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis): Health and Medicine – Transgender Health

2023 MAR 21 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Fresh data on Health and Medicine - Transgender Health are presented in a new report. According to news reporting originating in San Francisco, California, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Gender minority (GM) (people whose gender does not align with the sex assigned at birth) people have historically been insured at lower rates than the general population. The purpose of this review is to (1) assess the prevalence of health insurance among GM adults in the United States, (2) examine prevalence by gender, and (3) examine trends in prevalence before and after implementation of the Affordable Care Act.”

Funders for this research include NIH National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), “Published articles from PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science databases before April 26th, 2019, were included. This review is registered on PROSPERO (CRD42019133627). Analysis was guided by a random-effects model to obtain a meta-prevalence estimate for all GM people and stratified by gender subgroup. Heterogeneity was assessed using a Q-test and I-2 measure. Of 55 included articles, a random pooled estimate showed that 75% GM people were insured (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.71-0.79; p<0.001). Subgroup analysis by gender determined 70% of transgender women (95% CI: 0.64-0.76; pI(2)=97.16%) and 80% of transgender men (95% CI: 0.77-0.83; p=0.01; I-2=54.51%) were insured. Too few studies provided health insurance prevalence data for gender-expansive participants (GM people who do not identify as solely man or woman) to conduct analysis. The pooled prevalence of health insurance among GM people found in this review is considerably lower than the general population.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Standardized collection of gender across research and health care will improve identification of vulnerable individuals who experience this barrier to preventative and acute care services.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Health Insurance Prevalence Among Gender Minority People: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Transgender Health, 2022;7(4):292-302. Transgender Health can be contacted at: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc, 140 Huguenot Street, 3RD Fl, New Rochelle, NY 10801, USA.

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Kristen D. Clark, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), School of Nursing, Dept. of Community Health Systems, Koret Way, Room N505, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States. Additional authors for this research include Annesa Flentje and Athena D. F. Sherman.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2020.0182. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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