LGBT health policy and its invisibility in public health publications

ABSTRACT This is a literature review that aims to identify what is expressed in the publications of the main nationals journals regarding management, policies, and health practices addressed to the LGBT population, in the period comprehended between 2004 and 2018. The search of documents was carried out through the tool ‘integrated search’, being selected available articles in their whole that were indexed in the database Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO). We analyzed the publications of 10 national periodics and selected 27 publications that addressed health public policies towards the LGBT population. Little expression of related themes regarding the LGBT population was observed, in the 14 years of the temporary cut proposed by this article, since from the articles found, only 92 made reference the LGBT population and only 27 discussed health policies. Thus, it is verified the need for accomplishment of researches addressing the analysis of implantation of health public policies towards LGBT, that subsidize the construction of epidemiological data and information that translate the needs in the health of that population.