Research from the BEST Lab has shown in numerous studies that structural stigma—which we define as societal-level conditions, cultural norms, and institutional policies and practices—affects the health and wellbeing of stigmatized groups (for reviews, see Hatzenbuehler, 2014; 2016; 2017). In this current paper, BEST Lab researchers and colleagues used a novel strategy to further test this relationship. Specifically, we leveraged divergent mobility patterns, whereby a large group of sexual minority men participating in the EMIS study had moved from...
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Nazlee Zebardast, MD, MSc
