title: Researching LGB health and social policy: methodological issues and future directions.
abstract: Researchers interested in sexual minority health are beginning to examine contextual and environmental determinants of health such as neighbourhoods, health services, and social policies. Efforts to catalogue and systematise policies relating to the health of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals are therefore central in uncovering more comprehensive determinants of LGB health. This commentary identifies the links between social policy and LGB health, some methodological concerns of spatial analyses in this research area, and some future research directions. In particular, there is a need to integrate both migration and life course into understandings of the relationships between LGB health and jurisdictional policies.
authors.affiliation: Geography & Environment, University of Southampton, 2508 Shackleton Building, Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK. N.M.Lewis@soton.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Nathaniel M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D011640:Public Policy; D000072339:Sexual and Gender Minorities; D062211:Spatio-Temporal Analysis; D014481:United States
keywords: bisexual; gay; homophobia; lesbian; mental health; social policy