Gender inequality and restrictive gender norms: framing the challenges to health

L Heise, ME Greene, N Opper, M Stavropoulou… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Gender is not accurately captured by the traditional male and female dichotomy of sex.
Instead, it is a complex social system that structures the life experience of all human beings …

Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition

S Thurstans, C Opondo, A Seal, J Wells, T Khara… - BMJ global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Background Excess male morbidity and mortality is well recognised in neonatal medicine
and infant health. In contrast, within global nutrition, it is commonly assumed that girls are …

Factors associated with gender and sex differences in anxiety prevalence and comorbidity: A systematic review

NZ Farhane-Medina, B Luque, C Tabernero… - Science …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The prevalence and comorbidity of anxiety disorders are significantly different
between women and men, with research showing a greater impact on women. The aim of …

Women, power, and cancer: a Lancet Commission

O Ginsburg, V Vanderpuye, AM Beddoe, N Bhoo-Pathy… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Women interact with cancer in complex ways, as healthy individuals
participating in cancer prevention and screening activities, as individuals living with and …

Gender equality and central bank independence

HT Yin, CP Chang, DF Anugrah, I Gunadi - Economic Analysis and Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Central bank independence (CBI) is vital for maintaining stable economic expectations. Our
work employs a panel of 161 economies during the period 1970–2019 to investigate the …

Characteristics of successful programmes targeting gender inequality and restrictive gender norms for the health and wellbeing of children, adolescents, and young …

JK Levy, GL Darmstadt, C Ashby, M Quandt… - The Lancet Global …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and the shifting global
burden of disease, this systematic review analyses the evidence from rigorously evaluated …

Improving health with programmatic, legal, and policy approaches to reduce gender inequality and change restrictive gender norms

J Heymann, JK Levy, B Bose, V Ríos-Salas… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Evidence that gender inequalities and restrictive norms adversely affect health is extensive;
however, far less research has focused on testing solutions. We first comprehensively …

Gender disparities in clinical practice: are there any solutions? Scoping review of interventions to overcome or reduce gender bias in clinical practice

L Alcalde-Rubio, I Hernández-Aguado… - International journal for …, 2020 - Springer
Gender, understood as “social relationships between males and females in terms of their
roles, behaviours, activities, attributes and opportunities, and which are based on different …

Racial and sex inequities in the use of and outcomes after left ventricular assist device implantation among Medicare beneficiaries

TM Cascino, S Somanchi, M Colvin… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance While left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) increase survival for patients with
advanced heart failure (HF), racial and sex access and outcome inequities remain and are …

Gender as a social and structural variable: research perspectives from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

E Barr, R Popkin, E Roodzant… - Translational …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Gender is a social and structural variable that encompasses multiple domains, each of
which influences health: gender identity and expression, gender roles and norms, gendered …