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Record W1511680410 · doi:10.1177/00333549111260s304

Including Gender in Public Health Research

2011· article· en· W1511680410 on OpenAlexaff
Susan P. Phillips

Bibliographic record

VenuePublic Health Reports · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHealth disparities and outcomes
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSocial determinants of healthSocioeconomic statusPublic healthHealth equityDiversity (politics)Race and healthVulnerability (computing)Demographic economicsSocial connectednessDisadvantageHealth policyEnvironmental healthPsychologySociologyPolitical scienceSocial psychologyPopulationMedicineEconomics

Abstract

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Diversity in both biological attributes and the external, lived environment gives rise to different susceptibilities, exposures, health outcomes, and longevity. Public policy can modify the effects of external differences, if groups at greatest risk are identified and pathways to excess vulnerability are understood, by rebalancing and redistributing the inputs or social determinants that work their way under the skin to ultimately cause biological disadvantage. In the past three decades, a large volume of research has identified the nature of these social determinants of health—including income, socioeconomic status (SES), income inequality, social connectedness, and social capital—and the pathways by which they undermine or reinforce innate health. Often listed among these, but rarely studied, is gender. Medical research may identify sex differences when they exist; however, the varied social roles, expectations, and constraints experienced by men and women in a given society go well beyond the individual and sex differences and are rarely examined as inputs responsible for variation in health outcomes. As a result, health-affirming policies tend to homogenize groups (e.g., assuming that all women are the same) or target individual behaviors, and do so in a gender-blind fashion rather than addressing structural biases and inequities that undermine those behaviors. This article explores the nature of gender as a determinant of health and describes how the effects of gender inequities can be included in health outcomes research that can then shape health planning and policy.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.119
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.147
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.119
Threshold uncertainty score0.630

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1190.147
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0070.009
Science and technology studies0.0050.012
Scholarly communication0.0070.015
Open science0.0030.007
Research integrity0.0050.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.797
GPT teacher head0.545
Teacher spread0.252 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2011
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