ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2022
Women, men and COVID-19.
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- Sex-disaggregated data along the gendered health pathways: A review and analysis of global data on hypertension, diabetes, HIV, and AIDS.PLoS medicine · 2025Review
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- Demographic, social, and clinical aspects associated with access to COVID-19 health care in Pará province, Brazilian Amazon.Scientific reports · 2024Observational
- Lack of sex- and gender-disaggregated data in diagnostics: findings from a scoping review of five tracer conditions.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The impact of Covid-19 in Chhattisgarh, India: A descriptive study.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2024Article
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- Sustaining Functionality of Not-for-Profit Health Organisations During Pandemics: Lessons and COVID 19 Experience from Makerere University Walter Reed Project.The East African health research journal · 2024Article
- Worsened self-rated health in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic among older adults in Europe.European journal of public health · 2023Article
- An online questionnaire survey on the sexual function of Chinese male adults in the COVID-19 pandemic with loosened controls.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Enhanced surveillance of hospitalised COVID-19 patients in Europe: I-MOVE-COVID-19 surveillance network, February 2020 to December 2021.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2023Article
- Mind the gap: Data availability, accessibility, transparency, and credibility during the COVID-19 pandemic, an international comparative appraisal.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Women Are More Infected and Seek Care Faster but Are Less Severely Ill: Gender Gaps in COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality during Two Years of a Pandemic in Israel.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Am I Paid Well Enough to Be Diagnosed with COVID-19? Determinants of Gender Differences in Infection Detection Rate among Polish Working Age Population.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Risk Factors Associated with Mortality in COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients: Data from the Middle East.International journal of clinical practice · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is often gender bias in access and provision of care. Women fall through the cracks of the healthcare system due to gender-biased norms and poorer socioeconomic status.
methodsThis study uses COVID-19 sex-disaggregated data from 133 countries. Using bootstrapping and imputation methods and heteroscedastic linear regression model, it investigates the effect of biological factors and gender norms on reported differences in male and female COVID-19 case and death rates.
resultsGender norms are significant factors explaining such differences. Countries, where women experience more discrimination in families and have less access to resources, education and finance, report larger differences between male and female rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
conclusionWomen's lower access to healthcare due to social norms, financial and non-financial barriers may affect women's testing for COVID-19 and access to adequate care, and result in underreported female cases and deaths from COVID-19.
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