relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4686/
title: Broadening the Disparity Spectrum: The Health of Sexual and Gender Minorities in 2020s Norway.
creator: Langereis, Bob
description: Sexual and gender minorities face persistent health disparities despite efforts from (inter)national authorities to ensure health equality. Previous research links these disparities to minority stress and structural stigma, which entails marginalisation and stigmatisation at multiple societal levels. However, these studies are likely incomplete due to ignoring homogenous experiences and outcomes of various minority identities caused by imperfect data. Moreover, the health penalisation of some identities has likely changed due to increased social acceptance, while new emerging identities are understudied. This thesis uses the 2022 and 2023 Norwegian Quality of Life Survey to overcome previous limitations. This data holds a nationally representative sample of 32,843 cases, of which 3,360 belong to the sexual and gender minority population. Extensive sexual orientations and gender identities are investigated, including trans, non-binary, pansexual, queer, asexual and sexually-fluid. Descriptive findings show distinct socio-demographic characteristics between sexual and gender minorities and majorities, as well as the reporting of lower self-assessed health. After running a series of binary logistic regression analyses, minority identities are predicted to have a lower likelihood of good health compared to cis-genders and heterosexuals. However, the findings are limited in determining the minority-specific effects of health drivers. Future research should focus on the intersectionality of sexual and gender minority identity and social health influences while preserving representative samples and individual sexual orientations and gender identity assessments.
date: 2024
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4686/1/MasterThesisBobLangereisS3446638.pdf
identifier:   Langereis, Bob  (2024) Broadening the Disparity Spectrum: The Health of Sexual and Gender Minorities in 2020s Norway.  Master thesis.