Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we at and why does it matter?

G Shannon, M Jansen, K Williams, C Cáceres, A Motta… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
The purpose of this Review is to provide evidence for why gender equality in science,
medicine, and global health matters for health and health-related outcomes. We present a …

Gender norms and health: insights from global survey data

AM Weber, B Cislaghi, V Meausoone, S Abdalla… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Despite global commitments to achieving gender equality and improving health and
wellbeing for all, quantitative data and methods to precisely estimate the effect of gender …

Energy poverty and health: Panel data evidence from Australia

SA Churchill, R Smyth - Energy economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Australia's diverse climate makes it vulnerable to cold winters and extremely warm summers,
characterised by severe bushfires and heat waves. Thus, unlike most European countries …

Consideration of sex and gender in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders from a global perspective

MM Mielke, NT Aggarwal, C Vila‐Castelar… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sex or gender differences in the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD)
differ by world region, suggesting that there are potentially modifiable risk factors for …

A global assessment of the gender gap in self-reported health with survey data from 59 countries

T Boerma, AR Hosseinpoor, E Verdes, S Chatterji - BMC public health, 2016 - Springer
Background While surveys in high-income countries show that women generally have
poorer self-reported health than men, much less is known about gender differences in other …

The science of frailty: sex differences

C Park, FC Ko - Clinics in geriatric medicine, 2021 - geriatric.theclinics.com
The aging process in an older adult is driven by multidimensional inputs that contribute to an
individual's overall progressive decline and ultimately death. These inputs span biological …

Men and gender equality: European insights

E Scambor, N Bergmann, K Wojnicka… - Men and …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, some of the most important findings of the European research project The Role
of Men in Gender Equality (2011–2012) are discussed. This project was the first systematic …

Socioeconomic inequality in the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases in low-and middle-income countries: results from the World Health Survey

AR Hosseinpoor, N Bergen, S Mendis, S Harper… - BMC public health, 2012 - Springer
Background Noncommunicable diseases are an increasing health concern worldwide, but
particularly in low-and middle-income countries. This study quantified and compared …

Predicting cybersickness using individual and task characteristics

A Jasper, NC Sepich, SB Gilbert, JW Kelly… - Computers in Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
The experience of cybersickness in virtual reality (VR) drastically differs between users,
likely due to variability in individual and task characteristics, leaving cybersickness as a …

Influence of macrosocial policies on women's health and gender inequalities in health

C Borrell, L Palència, C Muntaner, M Urquía… - Epidemiologic …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Gender inequalities in health have been widely described, but few studies have examined
the upstream sources of these inequalities in health. The objectives of this review are 1) to …