Gender and Health

Latest research

1. Vagina, Pussy, Vulva, Vag: Women's Names for Their Genitals are Differentially Associated with Sexual and Health Outcomes

   • Tanja Oschatz
   • Verena Klein
   • Rotem Kahalon

   in Sex Roles

   Article Open access 22 October 2025

   

2. Reproductive health services: expectations and experiences among in-school and out-of-school adolescents in Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria

   • Adesola Olawumi Kareem
   • Abiodun John Kareem
   • Liasu Adeagbo Ahmed

   in BMC Public Health

   Article Open access 22 October 2025

   

3. Psychological distress, psychosocial factors, and physical inactivity among older women and men in Sweden: a population-based study

   • Susanne Nygård
   • Sanna Tiikkaja
   • Marina Arkkukangas

   in BMC Public Health

   Article Open access 22 October 2025

4. Redesigning medicine: integrating sex and gender for better health outcomes

   • Luisa S. Rajcsanyi
   • Maren A. Jochimsen
   • Anke Hinney

   in Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

   Article Open access 22 October 2025

5. Measuring Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Among a Nationally Representative Sample of US Youth and Young Adults, 2021–2022

   • Michael Liu
   • Rebecca M. Goyette
   • Elizabeth C. Hair

   in Sexuality Research and Social Policy

   Article 22 October 2025

6. Adult sex ratio and declining birth rates in Birhan HDSS rural Ethiopia

   • Chalachew Bekele Shiferaw
   • Delayehu Bekele
   • Grace J. Chan

   in Scientific Reports

   Article Open access 22 October 2025

   

7. Sexual orientation, gender identity and cardiometabolic risk: a narrative review

   • Meredith S. Duncan
   • Lauren B. Beach
   • Carl G. Streed Jr

   in Diabetologia

   Article Open access 21 October 2025

   

8. Impact of health education on knowledge and perception of cervical cancer and screening among rural women in Bangladesh

   • Morsheda Alam Mili
   • Md Jamil Hossain
   • Lakshmi Rani Kundu

   in Scientific Reports

   Article Open access 21 October 2025

9. Exploring gender-based challenges after the earthquake: a phenomenological study of women in Turkey

   • Gizem ÇITAK
   • Serpil TOKER

   in BMC Public Health

   Article Open access 21 October 2025

   

10. Menstrual irregularity and associated factors among female adolescents in Somali region high schools Ethiopia 2023

    • Nasir Hussein
    • Kasiye Shiferaw
    • Haymanot Mezmur

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 21 October 2025

11. Association between obesity and the intersection of depression, sex, and race in Brazilian adults: a cross-sectional analysis of population-based survey

    • Thais Cristina Marquezine Caldeira
    • Daniela Silva Canella
    • Taciana Maia de Sousa

    in BMC Public Health

    Article Open access 21 October 2025

12. Measuring the Long and Healthy Lives of a Nation: the Health, Aging and Gender Nexus

    • Gordon Anderson
    • Tongtong Hao

    in Social Indicators Research

    Article Open access 21 October 2025

    

13. GBD 2023: over twice the health loss from headache disorders among females compared with males, and one fifth of the loss is attributable to medication overuse

    • Andreas Kattem Husøy
    • Timothy J. Steiner

    in The Journal of Headache and Pain

    Article Open access 21 October 2025

14. Biological sex differences in pharmacokinetics and adverse drug reactions

    • Ahmad Aljohmani
    • Daniela Yildiz

    in Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

    Article Open access 21 October 2025

    

15. Association between self-reported gender-based discrimination and maternal mortality rates: results of an ecological multi-level analysis across nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Clara Orduhan
    • Ruth Waitzberg
    • Wilm Quentin

    in BMC Public Health

    Article Open access 21 October 2025

    

16. Plasma proteome adaptations during feminizing gender-affirming hormone therapy

    • Nhi N. L. Nguyen
    • Den Celestra
    • Boris Novakovic

    in Nature Medicine

    Article Open access 20 October 2025

    

17. Epidemiology of high-risk human papillomavirus among women of the north-central region of Ecuador: a retrospective study

    • Francisco Mosquera-Yuqui
    • David Larrea P.
    • Marcos Di Stefano

    in Infectious Agents and Cancer

    Article Open access 20 October 2025

    

18. The Spectrum of Sex and Gender

    • Linda Arrighi

    in Archives of Sexual Behavior

    Article Open access 18 October 2025

19. Examining Disordered Eating Behaviors Associated with Gender Dysphoria and Minority Stress among Transgender Adults in the Deep South

    • Elliott Botelho
    • Alena C. Borgatti
    • Caitlin Wolford Clevenger

    in Sexuality Research and Social Policy

    Article Open access 18 October 2025

20. Associations between female reproductive factors and osteoarthritis in women ≥ 50 years old: An NHANES 1999–2018 analysis of more than 10,000 women

    • Ling-Yun Cheng
    • Kuo-Chin Huang
    • Po-Yao Chuang

    in Immunologic Research

    Article 18 October 2025

    

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