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| Title |
Defining and measuring gender: A social determinant of health whose time has come
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|---|---|
| Published in |
International Journal for Equity in Health, July 2005
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| DOI | 10.1186/1475-9276-4-11 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Susan P Phillips |
| Abstract |
This paper contributes to a nascent scholarly discussion of sex and gender as determinants of health. Health is a composite of biological makeup and socioeconomic circumstances. Differences in health and illness patterns of men and women are attributable both to sex, or biology, and to gender, that is, social factors such as powerlessness, access to resources, and constrained roles. Using examples such as the greater life expectancy of women in most of the world, despite their relative social disadvantage, and the disproportionate risk of myocardial infarction amongst men, but death from MI amongst women, the independent and combined associations of sex and gender on health are explored. A model for incorporating gender into epidemiologic analyses is proposed. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 27 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 4% |
| Comoros | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 18 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 25 | 93% |
| Scientists | 2 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 353 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 342 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 55 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 43 | 12% |
| Researcher | 35 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 33 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 20 | 6% |
| Other | 53 | 15% |
| Unknown | 114 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 64 | 18% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 53 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 32 | 9% |
| Psychology | 23 | 7% |
| Arts and Humanities | 14 | 4% |
| Other | 43 | 12% |
| Unknown | 124 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 March 2024.
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#144
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