October 2025 Monthly Literature Search – LGBTQIA+ Health Care
October’s literature search explores barriers to and facilitators for LGBTQIA+ health. Informed practice fosters equitable health and wellbeing outcomes with access to safe, respectful, high-quality and inclusive health and wellbeing services for every person.
Grey Literature
- Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care National Action Plan for the Health and Wellbeing of LGBTIQA+ People 2025-2035
- ACON (2019). A Blueprint For Improving The Health and Wellbeing of the Trans and Gender Diverse Community in NSW, AIDS Council of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
- Hill, A. O., Bourne, A., McNair, R., Carman, M. & Lyons, A. (2020). Private Lives 3: The health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ people in Australia. ARCSHS Monograph Series No. 122. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
- The Health and Wellbeing Of LGBTQA+ Young People In Australia Writing Themselves In 4: ACT Summary Report https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/health-advice/guidelines-care-trans-and-gender-diverse-people
- Hallett, J., Rosenberg, S., Crawford, G., Atkinson, M., Gray, C. & Thomas, T. (2024) LGBTIQA+ Primary Health Care Priorities in Western Australia: Insights for Advocacy and Action. Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health (CERIPH), Curtin University: Perth, Western Australia.
Full-text articles
Adams, C., Bennetts, S., Ridgway, L., Hooker, L., East, C., & Edvardsson, K. (2025). Father and non-birth parent experience of child and family health services: a systematic review and meta-synthesis. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 31(3).
Alba, B., Lyons, A., Waling, A., Minichiello, V., Hughes, M., Barrett, C., Fredriksen‐Goldsen, K., & Edmonds, S. (2021). Older lesbian and gay adults’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators to accessing health and aged care services in Australia. Health & Social Care in the Community, 29(4), 918–927.
Boutilier, A. J., Clark, K. D., Bosse, J. D., Jackman, K. B., Jewell, J., & Dawson‐Rose, C. (2025). Social‐ecological barriers and facilitators to seeking inpatient psychiatric care among transgender and nonbinary people: A qualitative descriptive study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 81(4), 1937–1952.
Bretherton, I., Thrower, E., Zwickl, S., Wong, A., Chetcuti, D., Grossmann, M., Zajac, J.D., & Cheung, A. S. (2021). The health and well-being of transgender Australians: a national community survey. LGBT health, 8(1), 42-49.
Buckingham, P., Bourne, A., McNair, R., Hill, A. O., Lyons, A., Carman, M., & Amos, N. (2023). The influence of care continuity and disclosure of sexual orientation in general practice on lesbian, bi+ and queer cisgender women’s engagement with mental health services. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 30(1).
Carlin, E., Rogan, A., & Govindasamy, L. (2022). Let’s bring emergency departments out of the closet: Improving care for LGBTQIA+. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 34(3), 434–437.
Catlett L (2024). Healthcare needs and assets of gender diverse older adults: a systematic integrative review. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 56(1), 119-141.
Chen WJ & Radix AE (2024). Primary care and health care of transgender and gender-diverse older adults. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 40(2), 273-283.
Coleman, E., Radix, A. E., Bouman, W. P., Brown, G. R., De Vries, A. L., Deutsch, M. B., ... & Arcelus, J. (2022). Standards of care for the health of transgender and gender diverse people, version 8. International journal of transgender health, 23(sup1), S1-S259.
Cronin, T. J., Pepping, C. A., Halford, W. K., & Lyons, A. (2021). Mental health help-seeking and barriers to service access among lesbian, gay, and bisexual Australians. Australian Psychologist, 56(1), 46–60.
Dawson, C. A., Moulder, A., & Heron, K. E. (2025). Barriers and Facilitators to Accessing Mental and Physical Health Care Among Sexual Minority Women: A Qualitative Exploration. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(6), 965.
del Pozzo, J., Esopenko, C., Flatt, J. D., & Dams-O’Connor, K. (2025). Self-Reported Health Care Disparities and Barriers Among LGBTQIA+ Individuals. Family & Community Health.
Easpaig, B. N. G., Reynish, T. D., Hoang, H., Bridgman, H., Corvinus-Jones, S. L., & Auckland, S. (2022). A systematic review of the health and health care of rural sexual and gender minorities in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Rural and Remote Health, 22(3), 1–16.
González, S., & Veale, J. F. (2024). “It’s just a general lack of awareness, that breeds a sense that there isn’t space to talk about our needs”: barriers and facilitators experienced by transgender people accessing healthcare in Aotearoa/New Zealand. International Journal of Transgender Health, 1–21.
Haire, B. G., Brook, E., Stoddart, R., & Simpson, P. (2021). Trans and gender diverse people’s experiences of healthcare access in Australia: A qualitative study in people with complex needs. Plos one, 16(1), e0245889.
Hatzenbuehler, M. L., Lattanner, M. R., McKetta, S., & Pachankis, J. E. (2024). Structural stigma and LGBTQ+ health: a narrative review of quantitative studies. The Lancet Public Health, 9(2), e109–e127.
Holt, N. R., Eldridge-Smith, E. D., Griffin, J. A., Stepleman, L. M., Drescher, C. F., & Casanova, T. (2023). Differences in Health Care Access, Utilization, and Experiences Among LGBTQ+ Subgroups in the Southern United States. Family & Community Health, 46(1), 58–68.
Kuzma, E. K., Pardee, M., & Darling-Fisher, C. S. (2019). Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health: Creating safe spaces and caring for patients with cultural humility. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 31(3), 167-174.
Lucas, J. J., Afrouz, R., Brown, A. D., Epstein, S., Ryan, J., Hayward, J., & Brennan-Olsen, S. L. (2023). When primary healthcare meets Queerstory: community-based system dynamics influencing regional/rural LGBTQ+ people’s access to quality primary healthcare in Australia. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 387.
Lund, E. M., & Burgess, C. M. (2021). Sexual and Gender Minority Health Care Disparities: Barriers to Care and Strategies to Bridge the Gap. Primary Care, 48(2), 179–189.
Medina-Martínez, J., Saus-Ortega, C., Sánchez-Lorente, M. M., Sosa-Palanca, E. M., García-Martínez, P., & Mármol-López, M. I. (2021). Health inequities in LGBT people and nursing interventions to reduce them: A systematic review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(22), 11801.
Nair, J. M., Waad, A., Byam, S., & Maher, M. (2021). Barriers to Care and Root Cause Analysis of LGBTQ+ Patients’ Experiences. Nursing Research, 70(6), 417–424.
Pratt-Chapman, M. L., Eckstrand, K., Robinson, A., Beach, L. B., Kamen, C., Keuroghlian, A. S., ... & Margolies, L. (2022). Developing standards for cultural competency training for health care providers to care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual persons: Consensus recommendations from a national panel. LGBT health, 9(5), 340-347.
Radix AE, Schechter L, Harris AB & Goldstein Z (2024). Gender-affirming care for older transgender and gender diverse adults. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 40(2), 261-271.
Roberts, N. J., Harvey, L. A., Poulos, R. G., Ní Shé, É., Dillon Savage, I., Rafferty, G., & Ivers, R. (2022). Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender diverse and queer (LGBTQ) community members’ perspectives on palliative care in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(6).
Silveri, G., Schimmenti, S., Prina, E., Gios, L., Mirandola, M., Converti, M., Fiorillo, A., Pinna, F., Ventriglio, A., Galeazzi, G. M., Sherriff, N., Zeeman, L., Amaddeo, F., Somaini, G., Paribello, P., Pinna, F., Giallanella, D., Gaggiano, C., Ventriglio, A., … Bragazzi, N. L. (2022). Barriers in care pathways and unmet mental health needs in LGBTIQ + communities. International Review of Psychiatry, 34(3–4), 215–229.
Suttle, B., Bordelon, C., Jones, C., Talarico, N., Nguyen, S., & Bryant, P. (2025). Improving Care for LGBTQ+ Families. Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing, 39(2), 111–117.
Thomas, C., Dwyer, A., Batchelor, J., & van Niekerk, L. (2024). A qualitative exploration of gynaecological healthcare experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer people assigned female at birth. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 64(1), 55–62.
Whaibeh, E., Mahmoud, H., & Vogt, E. L. (2020). Reducing the Treatment Gap for LGBT Mental Health Needs: the Potential of Telepsychiatry. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 47(3), 424–431.