Gray J D, Stewart M J
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova, Scotia, Canada.
Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2008 Jan;83(1):188-91. doi: 10.1038/sj.clpt.6100432. Epub 2007 Oct 31.
In 2001, a national research institute devoted to the study of inter-relationships among sex, gender, and health was created by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) as the first of its kind in the world. Established with a vision "to transform understanding of the impact of gender and sex on health across the lifespan and ensure its application in health research in Canada," the Institute of Gender and Health (IGH) supports research to address how sex (biological factors) and gender (sociocultural experiences) interact with other factors that influence health to create conditions and problems that are unique, more prevalent, more serious, or different with respect to risk factors or effective interventions for women, men, girls, and boys.
2001年，加拿大卫生研究院（CIHR）设立了一个专门研究性、性别与健康之间相互关系的国家研究所，这是世界上首个此类研究所。性别与健康研究所（IGH）的设立愿景是“转变对性别和性在整个生命周期对健康影响的理解，并确保其在加拿大健康研究中的应用”，该研究所支持开展研究，以探讨性（生物因素）和性别（社会文化经历）如何与其他影响健康的因素相互作用，从而产生独特的、更普遍的、更严重的或在危险因素或有效干预措施方面对女性、男性、女孩和男孩有所不同的状况和问题。
