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Healthcare disparities faced by LGTBQ Canadians widened by coronavirus: researchers
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Researchers at the University of Toronto are rapidly trying to educate health-care workers about the barriers LGBTQ people face to accessing care during the COVID-19 crisis.
The research group had already been developing a curriculum to address inequities in the health-care system for people who identify as LGBTQ.
Now they’re trying to adapt it quickly and get it into the hands of doctors working on the front lines of the pandemic. “We were already researching susceptibility to illnesses or likely trends that speak to a reluctance to engage with the health-care system,” said researcher Miranda Schreiber, with the postgraduate medical education program. “Once COVID hit, really what it does is aggravate all these disparities.” The study of
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