Gender/sex as a social determinant of cardiovascular risk

A O'Neil, AJ Scovelle, AJ Milner, A Kavanagh - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
The social gradient for cardiovascular disease (CVD) onset and outcomes is well
established. The American Heart Association's Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes of …

Measurement of gender as a social determinant of health in epidemiology—A scoping review

C Miani, L Wandschneider, J Niemann… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background The relevance of gender as a social determinant of health and its role in the
production of health inequalities is now broadly acknowledged. However, the plethora of …

Photovoice and empowerment: evaluating the transformative potential of a participatory action research project

K Budig, J Diez, P Conde, M Sastre, M Hernán… - BMC public health, 2018 - Springer
Background Photovoice is a visual research methodology with the intention to foster social
change. Photovoice has been used to investigate change in empowerment in vulnerable …

Intersectionality-based quantitative health research and sex/gender sensitivity: a scoping review

E Mena, G Bolte… - International Journal for …, 2019 - Springer
Background The implementation of a theoretical intersectionality framework into quantitative
data analyses is gaining increasing interest in health research. The substantive foundation …

Biology, bias, or both? The contribution of sex and gender to the disparity in cardiovascular outcomes between women and men

S Gauci, S Cartledge, J Redfern, R Gallagher… - Current Atherosclerosis …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality
and morbidity worldwide for both men and women. However, CVD is understudied …

Gender-neutral mental health research is sex and gender biased

LM Howard, AM Ehrlich, F Gamlen, S Oram - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2017 - thelancet.com
Few would disagree that sex is of relevance in understanding and treating mental disorders,
but there seems to be less consensus on the extent to which researchers should consider …

The operationalisation of sex and gender in quantitative health–related research: a scoping review

S Horstmann, C Schmechel, K Palm… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Current trends in quantitative health research have highlighted the inadequacy of the usual
operationalisation of sex and gender, resulting in a growing demand for more nuanced …

Integrating sex/gender into environmental health research: development of a conceptual framework

G Bolte, K Jacke, K Groth, U Kraus, L Dandolo… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
There is a growing awareness about the need to comprehensively integrate sex and gender
into health research in order to enhance the validity and significance of research results. An …

Sex/gender differences in the association between residential green space and self-rated health—a sex/gender-focused systematic review

G Bolte, S Nanninga, L Dandolo - International journal of environmental …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Though sex/gender is an important social determinant of health, sex/gender inequalities
have not been considered comprehensively in environmental health research thus far. The …

Integrating and evaluating sex and gender in health research

S Day, R Mason, S Lagosky, PA Rochon - Health research policy and …, 2016 - Springer
Both sex (biological factors) and gender (socio-cultural factors) shape health. To produce
the best possible health research evidence, it is essential to integrate sex and gender …