This keynote chapter provides an overview of research into the relationship between health and gender/sex. Since health has multiple dimensions, several measures are needed to capture variations by gender and the use of multiple measures can help us better understand the underlying explanations for ge...
We then compared the number of outpatient visits between genders in FY 2003. We identified 406 female and 812 male veterans. The mean number of clinic visits for women was 25.2 (SD 30.2) and for men 17.6 (SD 24.1). After adjusting for multiple pain sites, psychiatric diagnoses, age, and...
As shown in Table 3, there is a difference between genders in community service needs. Among the seven domains measured, housework support, convenience, residential environment, movement support, connection support, and emergency support significantly differed by gender. Men were more likely than women...
For Brazilian adults of both genders, depression demonstrated the strongest independent association with good SRH.We conclude that when examining gender differences in predictors of SRH, the similarities are greater than the differences between Brazilian and Chilean older adults. In both countries, ...
It’s no secret that boys and girls are different—verydifferent. The differences between genders, however, extend beyond what the eye can see. Research reveals major distinguishers between male and female brains. Scientists generally study four primary areas of difference in male and female brains...
Our findings suggest that decreasing disparities between sexes in education, due to secular increases in educational opportunities, could attenuate sex differences in dementia risk and cognitive decline in the future. Funding National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health; UK Medical Research ...
This cannot be explained by biological differences between males and females alone. It is assumed that health outcomes and exposure patterns also depend on gender, determined by social, economic, and cultural factors in society. This systematic review evaluated the current state of how sex/gender ...
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 aim of this systematic review was to clarify whether sex/gender theoretical concepts were addressed in studies on the impact of...
necessary course of action in the context of Precision Medicine. Therefore, here we defined two main categories of sex and gender biases: desirable and undesirable (see Fig.2). The difference between them is found in the impact that these biases have on the patients’ wellbeing and healthcare...
The present study examines the moderating effects of gender on the longitudinal association between exposure to violence and a variety of mental health symptoms (externalizing, internalizing, PTSD, dissociation) in a racially diverse urban adolescent sample ( N =615; 50.6% female; Time 1 mean age=...