2021/06/30 by Caroline Moreau, Robert W. Blum, Robert Blum +13 · 1 citation
Health Professions · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Gender Roles and Identity Studies #Obesity and Health Practices #Sex and Gender in Healthcare
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.04.012
openalex publication_date 2021/06/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
In 2005, the World Health Organization recognized gender as a structural driver of inequalities in health [1]. While health patterns unfold throughout the life course, it is during the transitional period of early adolescence, 10–14 years of age, that a gender divide in health begins to emerge with consequences that exacerbate across adolescence and through adulthood [2]. While the original understanding of this divide was mostly rooted in a biomedical conceptualization of gender (often conflated with sex), we have moved toward a biosocial understanding of gender as a sociocultural process that interacts with and regulates the bodies through differential patterns of exposures and practices [3].