School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University, Harbour Center, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2024 Feb 23;19(2):e0299124. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299124. eCollection 2024.
Despite growing attention paid to health equity and efforts to promote gender mainstreaming-a global strategy to promote gender equality-how policymakers have 'institutionalized' this in their work is less clear. Therefore, this planned scoping review seeks to search the peer-reviewed and grey literature to compile evidence on the ways in which policymakers have routinely or systematically considered equity and/or gender in their work.
A scoping review will be undertaken by drawing on the PRISMA guidelines for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). With the expert guidance of a research librarian, Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid EMBASE, PAIS Index, and Scopus databases will be searched, in addition to custom Google searches of government documents. The search will be conducted from 1995 and onwards, as there were no hits prior to this date that included the term "gender mainstream*" in these databases. The inclusion criterion is that: (i) texts must provide information on how equity and/or gender has been considered by government officials in the development of public policy in a routine or systematic manner (e.g., descriptive, empirical); (ii) both texts produced by government or not (e.g., commentary about government action) will be included; (iii) there are no restrictions on study design or article type (i.e., commentaries, reports, and other documents, would all be included); and (iv) texts must be published in English due to resource constraints. However, texts that discuss the work of nongovernmental or intergovernmental organizations will be excluded. Data will be charted by: bibliographic information, including the authors, year, and article title; country the text discussed; and a brief summary on the approach taken.
This protocol was developed to improve rigour in the study design and to promote transparency by sharing our methods with the broader research community. This protocol will support a scoping review of the ways in which policymakers have routinely or systematically considered equity and/or gender in their work. We will generate findings to inform government efforts to initiate, sustain, and improve gender and equity mainstreaming approaches in policymaking.
尽管人们越来越关注健康公平，并努力促进性别主流化——这是一项促进性别平等的全球战略——但政策制定者如何将其“制度化”到工作中尚不清楚。因此，本计划中的范围审查旨在搜索同行评议和灰色文献，以汇编关于政策制定者在工作中例行或系统地考虑公平和/或性别的方式的证据。
将在研究图书馆员的专业指导下，根据 PRISMA 用于范围审查的指南（PRISMA-ScR）进行范围审查。除了对政府文件进行自定义 Google 搜索外，还将搜索 Ovid MEDLINE、Ovid EMBASE、PAIS 索引和 Scopus 数据库。搜索将从 1995 年开始进行，因为在此之前，这些数据库中没有包含“性别主流化”一词的命中。纳入标准是：（i）文本必须提供有关政府官员在例行或系统地制定公共政策时如何考虑公平和/或性别的信息（例如，描述性的、实证性的）；（ii）包括政府或非政府制作的文本（例如，关于政府行动的评论）；（iii）对研究设计或文章类型没有限制（即包括评论、报告和其他文件）；（iv）由于资源限制，文本必须用英文出版。但是，将排除讨论非政府组织或政府间组织工作的文本。数据将通过以下方式进行图表绘制：书目信息，包括作者、年份和文章标题；文本讨论的国家；以及对所采用方法的简要总结。
本方案旨在通过与更广泛的研究界分享我们的方法来提高研究设计的严谨性并提高透明度。本方案将支持对政策制定者在工作中例行或系统地考虑公平和/或性别的方式进行范围审查。我们将生成调查结果，为政府努力启动、维持和改进性别和公平主流化方法在决策制定中的应用提供信息。
