1. [Application of gender perspective in papers published between 2000 and 2003 from four National Institutes of Health journals].
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Cerón-Mireles P, Sánchez-Carrillo CI, Robledo-Vera C, del Río Zolezzi A, Pedrosa-Islas L, Reyes-Zapata H, Cerón-Mireles B, Ordaz-Hernández G, and Olaiz-Fernández GA
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- Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Mexico, Interpersonal Relations, Periodicals as Topic statistics & numerical data, Publishing statistics & numerical data
- Abstract
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the application of gender perspective in public health papers in four journals published by the Mexican National Health Institutes., Material and Methods: A total of 999 papers published in the four journals between 2000 and 2003 was reviewed. Two levels of analysis were considered: (a) data presented by sex, providing description of differences between women and men, and (b) the analysis of these differences from gender perspective., Results: One quarter (25.4%) of the articles described results by sex. The largest percentage was published in Salud Pública de México (48.8%) and the smallest in Revista de Investigación Clínica (16.1%). Gender perspective was used in only 4.2% of papers; of these, drug addictions, health behaviour and violence were the topics that occurred most frequently., Conclusions: This is the first study to assess the application of gender perspective in Mexican health articles. Similarly to other countries, a very small percentage of authors analyzed sex differences, and a smaller proportion applied gender perspective. Results demonstrate the importance of promoting interdisciplinary research that may promote the elucidation of health inequalities between men and women.
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- 2006
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