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Sexual minority status and self-rated health: the importance of socioeconomic status, age, and sex

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  • Thomeer, M.B.

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I examined how sexual minority status, as indicated by sex of sexual partners, is associated with self-rated health and how socioeconomic status suppresses and age and sex moderate this association. I used multinomial logistic regression to analyze aggregated data from the 1991 to 2010 General Social Survey, a population-based data set (n = 13,480). Respondents with only different-sex partners or with any same-sex partners reported similar levels of health. With socioeconomic status added to the model, respondents with any same-sex partners reported worse health than those with only different-sex partners, but only if sexual intercourse with same-sex partners occurred in the previous 5 years. Age and sex moderated this relationship: having any same-sex partners was associated with worse health for women but not men and among younger adults only. The relationship between sexual minority status and self-rated health varies across sociodemographic groups. Future research should use population-level data to examine other health outcomes and continue to explore how the intersection of sexual minority status and other sociodemographic indicators shapes health.

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  • Thomeer, M.B., 2013. "Sexual minority status and self-rated health: the importance of socioeconomic status, age, and sex," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 103(5), pages 881-888.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2012.301040_5
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301040
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