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Integrating sex/gender into environmental health research: Development of a conceptual framework.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 18:12118 (2021)
There is a growing awareness about the need to comprehensively integrate sex and gender into health research in order to enhance the validity and significance of research results. An in-depth consideration of differential exposures and vulnerability is lacking, especially within environmental risk assessment. Thus, the interdisciplinary team of the collaborative research project INGER (inte-grating gender into environmental health research) aimed to develop a multidimensional sex/gen-der concept as a theoretically grounded starting point for the operationalization of sex and gender in quantitative (environmental) health research. The iterative development process was based on gender theoretical and health science approaches and was inspired by previously published concepts or models of sex-and gender-related dimensions. The INGER sex/gender concept fulfills the four theoretically established prerequisites for comprehensively investigating sex and gender aspects in population health research: multidimensionality, variety, embodiment, and intersectional-ity. The theoretical foundation of INGER’s multidimensional sex/gender concept will be laid out, as well as recent sex/gender conceptualization developments in health sciences. In conclusion, by building upon the latest state of research of several disciplines, the conceptual framework will significantly contribute to integrating gender theoretical concepts into (environmental) health re-search, improving the validity of research and, thus, supporting the promotion of health equity in the long term.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Concept ; Embodiment ; Environment ; Framework ; Gender ; Health Equity ; Inequality ; Intersectionality ; Model ; Sex ; Social Determinants; Differential Vulnerability; Gender-differences; Intersectionality; Sex; Risk; Inequalities; Scope
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1661-7827
e-ISSN
1660-4601
Quellenangaben
Volume: 18,
Issue: 22,
Article Number: 12118
Publisher
MDPI
Publishing Place
Basel, Switzerland
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Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI2)
Grants
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research