Integrating and evaluating sex and gender in health research
Integrating and evaluating sex and gender in health research
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DOI：
10.1186/s12961-016-0147-7
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发表时间：
2016-10-10
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4
通讯作者：
Rochon, Paula A.
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作者：
Day, Suzanne;Mason, Robin;Rochon, Paula A.
性（生物因素）和性别（社会文化因素）都影响健康。为了产生尽可能好的健康研究证据，必须在整个研究过程中纳入性和性别考虑。尽管人们日益认识到这些因素的重要性，但在卫生研究中，将性和性别问题纳入标准做法的进展既缓慢又不均衡。在这篇评论中，我们从研究的角度审视了整合性和性别的挑战，以及研究人员、资助者和期刊编辑可以用来应对这些挑战的策略。将性和性别纳入卫生研究的障碍包括术语不一致的问题、应用性和性别概念的困难、未能认识到性和性别的影响以及数据收集和数据集方面的挑战。我们分析这些障碍，作为改善性和性别在研究过程的各个阶段的整合的干预战略点。为了评估这些战略在任何特定研究中的相对成功，研究人员、资助者和期刊编辑将受益于一种评估性和性别融合质量的工具，以建立卓越研究的基准。这些评估工具现在是需要的，因为越来越多的机构认识到，性和性别都是提高健康研究证据的质量和效用的必要因素。
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 considerations throughout the research process. Despite growing recognition of the importance of these factors, progress towards sex and gender integration as standard practice has been both slow and uneven in health research. In this commentary, we examine the challenges of integrating sex and gender from the research perspective, as well as strategies that can be used by researchers, funders and journal editors to address these challenges. Barriers to the integration of sex and gender in health research include problems with inconsistent terminology, difficulties in applying the concepts of sex and gender, failure to recognise the impact of sex and gender, and challenges with data collection and datasets. We analyse these barriers as strategic points of intervention for improving the integration of sex and gender at all stages of the research process. To assess the relative success of these strategies in any given study, researchers, funders and journal editors would benefit from a tool to evaluate the quality of sex and gender integration in order to establish benchmarks in research excellence. These assessment tools are needed now amidst growing institutional recognition that both sex and gender are necessary elements for advancing the quality and utility of health research evidence.