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Health of the LGBT population: an analysis of agents, objects of interest and disputes in an emerging scientific production space

Abstract

Systematic review of scientific production on the health of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites and transsexuals (LGBT) in Latin America from 2001 to 2018. We analyzed 161 articles indexed on the bases of SciELO, LILACS, Pubmed and Web of Science. The analysis was based on the concepts of field, agents and capital of Pierre Bourdieu and revealed that there is an emerging space of production on the theme, occupied mainly by agents of Public Health, Psychology, Nursing and Psychiatry. In this space, the issue of violence and discrimination and its effects on mental health, education and professional performance has been the main object of interest, along with the repercussions of body changes for transvestites and transsexuals. It is noteworthy that the subgroups, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites and transsexuals are targets of different research objects, the central dispute of categorization by science of each of these groups remaining.

Keywords:
LGBT; homosexuality; bisexuality; transgender persons; health

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