Searching for health/medical research about LGBTQIA+ people can be complicated; the language that the community uses to describe themselves may change over time, and the language used by the community may also differ from what is used by healthcare providers. You may want to try a mix of keywords and subject headings when doing a search. Because clinical research is generally done on specific populations (i.e., men who sleep with men), umbrella acronyms like "LGBT" or "LGBTQIA" or "GLBT" might not always find good results.
The best databases for searching for healthcare/medical research articles at Bradley University are
Biomedical and health sciences articles. This version has been customized for our library so that the Get It @ Bradley link will appear.
Also, search the library's catalog for books and ebooks. Or try searching in a specific ebook collection.
Ebooks for nursing, allied health and medicine topics.
Pubmed includes filters for:
Additionally, the following MeSH terms may be useful:
CINAHL has a number of subject headings that could be helpful:
The following subject headings are useful when searching the catalog for books.
These government websites have credible and reliable information about LGBTQIA+ health.
These websites have reliable statistics about LGBTQIA+ health.