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Policies, politics and gender research

¹ Observatory on Women’s Health, NHS’s Quality Agency’s Directorate General, Ministry of Health and Consumers’ Affairs, Madrid, Spain
² CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain

Correspondence to:
Concha Colomer-Revuelta, Observatorio Salud de la Mujer y del Sistema Nacional de Salud, DG Agencia de Calidad del SNS, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Paseo del Prado 18-20, 28071 Madrid, Spain; ccolomer@msc.es

Keywords: gender; policies; politics

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Today, the importance of adopting a gender approach is widely acknowledged when it comes to planning and assessing policies, programmes and health services. But it is also obvious, on the other hand, that development of research on gender and health, and on women’s health, that allows taking action to be based on scientific knowledge, is rather scarce.

More and more frequently research results are presented, either broken down by sex, or sex is included as a variable for study and analysis. We know that this is still insufficient for understanding health inequalities arising from gender, and for taking steps to reduce them. Gender issues are giving rise to growing interest, but their study has been kept away from medicine, for which the concern has chiefly been biology (sex and not gender), and where the broadly adopted model has been male disease. On close inspection, it may be seen . . . [Full text of this article]

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