Gender Disparity in the Funding of Diseases by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

ABSTRACT: Background: Gender bias has been an ongoing issue in health care, examples being underrepresentation of women in health studies, trivialization of women's physical complaints, and discrimination in the awarding of research grants. We examine here a different issue-gender disparity when it comes to the allocation of research funding among diseases. Materials and Methods: We perform an analysis of funding by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to ascertain possible gender disparity in its allocation of funds across diseases. We normalize funding level to disease burden, as measured by the Disability Adjusted Life Year, and we specifically consider diseases for which both disease burden and funding level are provided. We apply a power-law regression analys

SUBMITTER: Mirin AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8290307 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature