Addressing Health Inequity Through Nursing Science

Redeker, Nancy S.

doi:10.1016/j.outlook.2021.04.008

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“…Indeed, significant differences have been found in many diseases, indicating that the odds applied to the circumstance of hospitalization is a sensitive indicator and of a potentially extensive use for detecting diseases likely to generate gender disparities. This analysis can therefore serve as a tool for tracking modifiable social, behavioral, and environmental factors associated with gender that condition the health-disease continuum of people (Redeker, 2021). In this line, we observed that the frequency of hospitalization in the BAC population between 2016 and 2018 was lower in women than in men (Table 1), although the BAC population consists of a higher percentage of women than men between the years in which the analysis was performed (51.4% of women in 2016 and 2017; 51.5% in 2018), and although 4.1% of women in the BAC perceived their health as "Very bad" or "bad" compared to 2.6% of men, and female also scored lower on the health-related quality of life scale in 2018 (Eustat, 2019).…”

Section: Setting Vulnerability Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender differences in unplanned hospital admission: A population‐based approach

Labaka,

Elordi‐Guenaga,

Zubeldia‐Etxeberria

et al. 2023

Nursing & Health Sciences

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Gender inequities are present not only in the health status of individuals but also in access to health services. Unplanned hospitalizations can indicate dysfunction in health systems by detecting unmet health problems prior to the health care needs of a person, while planned hospitalizations indicate effective management by the system. Thus, we aim to analyze the association between sex and the probability of unplanned or planned hospitalization for different diseases. A cross‐sectional retrospective study was performed with data regarding the 700 447 hospitalizations at all registered centers in the Basque Country from 2016 to 2018. Adjusted odds ratios were carried out to determine the association between sex and admission circumstances for each diagnostic category. Results showed that women had higher odds ratio for unplanned hospitalization for various diseases of the circulatory system and inguinal hernia among others, while men had a higher odds ratio for diseases such as neoplasms, metabolic diseases, and multiple sclerosis. The differences by sex indicate that the odds applied to the circumstance of hospitalization is a sensitive indicator and potentially applicable for detecting diseases likely to generate gender‐based inequalities.

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Section: Setting Vulnerability Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%