The detailed checklist is intended to support researchers in the comprehensive integration of sex/gender in quantitative health research and provides recommendations for each step of the research process. It has now been published in the journal BMC Medical Research Methodology. The checklist is grounded in gender theory with reference to multidimensionality, variability, embodiment and intersectionality and was developed on the basis of an extensive literature review of previously published recommendations and checklists and the expert knowledge of the INGER study group. In addition to the recommendations, the publication contains a glossary of important terms and a conceptual classification of quantitative health research into gender-blind, gender-differentiated, gender-sensitive and sex/gender-transformative with methodological requirements and examples.
The checklist was developed in the interdisciplinary collaborative project INGER (“Integrating gender into environmental health research”), which was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
The INGER project thus offers basic guidelines for sex/gender-transformative health research with its products of a multidimensional sex/gender concept from an intersectionality perspective, its exemplary operationalization in an epidemiological study with corresponding approaches to statistical analysis, an evaluation matrix for the systematic assessment of the consideration of sex/gender in quantitative health studies and the currently published checklist.
Authors from the team of the Department of Social Epidemiology of the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research are Christina Hartig, Sophie Horstmann, Lisa Dandolo und Gabriele Bolte.
Information on the joint project INGER and links to the publications can be found here: www.uni-bremen.de/inger
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte
Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research
Department of Social Epidemiology
E-Mail: gabriele.bolte@uni-bremen.de