Primary Health Care in Brazil and the LGBTI+ population: An integrative review
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Health services. Primary Health Care. Sexual and gender minorities.Abstract
This article mainly focuses on the healthcare attention provided to the LGBTI+ population in
Primary Healthcare within the Brazilian context. To achieve this, we sought to analyze the literature produced on the experiences of healthcare attention to the LGBTI+ population in Primary Healthcare in Brazil through an integrative literature review and thematic content analysis to identify, analyze, and report patterns within the researched data. The studies were classified and ordered according to the year of publication,
region of the country, methodology used, and participant status. Although the researched period began in 2012, publications were only recorded in 2015. Between the years 2016 and 2019, there was an increase in the number of published studies related to the theme of this research. The decrease in publications in 2020 may be related to the reduction of activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is also concluded that moral and
religious factors have a strong impact on prejudice and discrimination, and there are reports in the literature of healthcare professionals being anchored in cultural teachings, family influence, and social groups that do not accept sexual and gender diversity, contributing to the dist
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