Sexual minority status: An overlooked stigma that affects food insecurity.
Sexual minority status: An overlooked stigma that affects food insecurity.
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性少数地位：影响粮食不安全的被忽视的耻辱。
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10.1093/ajcn/nqab333
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2021
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VanKim,NicoleA
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2011年，医学研究所（IOM）发布了第一份关于女同性恋，男同性恋，双性恋和变性人群健康的报告。在这份报告中，国际移民组织强调了对这些边缘化人口健康的研究不足，但注意到基于性取向的教育和经济差距的新工作。事实上，最近的工作更清楚地强调了经济机会中的性取向差距（2）。作者：Gibb et al. (3)《美国临床营养学杂志》（The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition）在本期中发表的一篇文章，阐述了为缩小对基于性取向的健康和经济差异的理解方面的差距所需的研究。食品不安全是《2030年健康人群》中的一项主要健康指标，国家公共卫生和经济努力旨在解决这一健康的社会决定因素。那些报告经历粮食不安全的人往往是那些占据边缘化社会和经济地位的人，例如生活在贫困线附近或贫困线以下，有色人种，单亲家庭（4），正如Gibb等人所述。(3)性少数群体。重要的是要注意到，虽然用于检查受粮食不安全影响最严重的人的指标经常是独立报告的，但这些特征相互交叉。例如，单亲家庭也可能生活在贫困之下。考虑到社会和经济地位的交叉性（5），性少数人群报告粮食不安全的比例高于异性恋人群（3）可能并不奇怪。
In 2011, the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) released the first report of its kind on the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations (1). In this report, the IOM highlighted the dearth of research on the health of these marginalized populations, but noted emerging work on educational and economic disparities based on sexual orientation. Indeed, recent work highlights more clearly the sexual orientation gap in economic opportunities (2). The article by Gibb et al.(3) in this issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition exemplifies the kind of research needed to close gaps in understanding sexual orientation–based health and economic disparities.Food insecurity is a leading health indicator in Healthy People 2030, with national public health and economic efforts aimed at addressing this social determinant of health. Those who report experiencing food insecurity tend to be those who occupy marginalized social and economic positions, such as living close to or below poverty, people of color, single-parent households (4), and, as illustrated by Gibb et al.(3), sexual minority populations. It is important to note that while the metrics used to examine those most impacted by food insecurity are frequently reported independently, these characteristics intersect. For example, single-parent households may also be living below poverty. Given the intersectional nature of social and economic positions (5), it is perhaps not surprising that a higher proportion of sexual minority populations report food insecurity than heterosexual ones (3).