Intersectionality-based quantitative health research and sex/gender sensitivity: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The implementation of a theoretical intersectionality framework into quantitative data analyses is gaining increasing interest in health research. The substantive foundation of intersectionality was established in the U.S., based on the claim of black feminists to broaden the scope of contemporary gender studies by considering the intersection between sex/gender and race/ethnicity more firmly. The aim of our scoping review with particular emphasis on sex/gender was to assess how intersectionality-informed studies in epidemiological research considered different social dimensions in their multivariable and multivariate analyses.

Methods

Following the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR), we conducted a literature review in PubMed. Three distinct health

SUBMITTER: Mena E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6925460 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature