Access to care for transgender veterans in the veterans health administration: 2006-2013

M.R. Kauth, J.C. Shipherd, J. Lindsay, J.R. Blosnich, G.R. Brown and K.T. Jones

American Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 104, issue S4, S532-S534

Abstract: 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 Administrationmedical 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.

Keywords: article; attitude to health; government; human; incidence; organization and management; prevalence; transsexualism; transsexuality; United States; veterans health, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Incidence; Prevalence; Transgendered Persons; Transsexualism; United States; United States Department of Veterans Affairs; Veterans Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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