CIHR Institute of Gender and Health, Vancouver, BC.
Can J Public Health. 2012 Nov 8;104(1):e80-1. doi: 10.1007/BF03405660.
Sex and gender have been demonstrated to influence all domains of health, from basic mechanisms of disease development to health service utilization. It is therefore no longer acceptable to ignore sex and gender issues in health research reports if these reports are to be deemed accurate. Funding agencies and journals have been identified as primary change agents in health research systems. Canada is making progress on the funding side of the equation--applicants to Canada's federal health research funding agency are required to justify why sex and gender are relevant or not to their research designs. We argue that it is now time for Canada's leading health research journals to follow suit. We have a unique opportunity in Canada to demonstrate leadership in doing science better with sex and gender--and we should not let it be missed.
性别已被证明会影响健康的各个方面，从疾病发展的基本机制到卫生服务的利用。因此，如果要使健康研究报告被认为是准确的，那么在健康研究报告中忽视性别问题已不再被接受。资助机构和期刊已被确定为卫生研究系统中的主要变革推动者。加拿大在资金方面取得了进展——向加拿大联邦卫生研究资助机构申请资金的人必须说明性别与他们的研究设计相关或不相关的原因。我们认为，现在加拿大的主要卫生研究期刊也应该效仿。我们在加拿大有一个独特的机会来展示如何更好地进行有性别差异的科学研究——我们不应该错过这个机会。
