BACKGROUND Research shows that sexual minorities (e.g., lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals) experience higher levels of discrimination, stigma, and stress and are at higher risk of some poor health outcomes and health behaviors compared to their heterosexual counterparts. However, the majority of studies have examined sexual orientation disparities in a narrow range of health outcomes and b...

CONTEXT US research results suggest that some sociodemographic characteristics predict use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Specifically, use of CAM has been positively associated with persons from higher socioeconomic status groups and negatively associated with African-Americans. OBJECTIVE To investigate the sociodemographic characteristics of CAM utilizers in a national pro...

The initial aim of this essay is to sketch out the historical passage from the ideal of salvation to the ideal of cure in the West, indicating the effects of the process of medicalization of society attained through biopolitics. In second place, it is intended to describe the different ramifications of biopolitics in the origins of psychoanalysis discourse.

In this study, I used ethnographic methods to examine suicidality and nonsuicidal self-harm among gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons in Japan. Participants (N = 84) indicated that suicidality and self-harm are serious problems among sexual minorities and tend to be driven by (a) a homophobic/transphobic environment and the negative consequences of sexual minorities either disclosin...

BACKGROUND Sexual minorities have documented elevated risk factors that can lead to inflammation and poor immune functioning. PURPOSE This study aims to investigate disparities in C-reactive protein (CRP) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) by gender and sexual orientation. METHODS We used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine disparities in CRP (N = 11,462) and EBV (N = ...

In Indonesia, national broadcasting in the 21st century has been characterized by increasing Muslim normativity across the spectrum of commercial programming, along with sectarian clashes that have further marginalized religious minorities. This article investigates the case of a small, regional television station in one of the country’s Christian-majority provinces to explore the ways that suc...

Does the United States afford people of different backgrounds a sense of equal identification with the nation? Past research has documented ethnic/racial group differences on levels of national identity but there has been little research examining what psychologically moderates these disparities. The present research investigates how perceived group discrimination is associated with national an...

The peculiarities of the formation and development legal status national minorities, who were on Ukrainian territory during studied period engaged in various types economic activity, as well influence general imperial local legislation certain aspects life have been investigated.
 regulatory legislative acts that determined communities analyzed. conditions circumstances under which process...

Through the prism of media, content ethno-national policy Bolshevik leadership USSR in 1920s and 1930s is revealed. The direction indigenization, formation national administrative-territorial entities, field culture education minorities their ideological support by means visual propaganda are covered. It’s noted that intensification activities ethnic Ukraine has led to curtailment indigenizatio...