title: [Application of gender perspective in papers published between 2000 and 2003 from four National Institutes of Health journals].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of this study was to determine the application of gender perspective in public health papers in four journals published by the Mexican National Health Institutes.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 999 papers published in the four journals between 2000 and 2003 was reviewed. Two levels of analysis were considered: (a) data presented by sex, providing description of differences between women and men, and (b) the analysis of these differences from gender perspective.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One quarter (25.4%) of the articles described results by sex. The largest percentage was published in Salud Pública de México (48.8%) and the smallest in Revista de Investigación Clínica (16.1%). Gender perspective was used in only 4.2% of papers; of these, drug addictions, health behaviour and violence were the topics that occurred most frequently.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This is the first study to assess the application of gender perspective in Mexican health articles. Similarly to other countries, a very small percentage of authors analyzed sex differences, and a smaller proportion applied gender perspective. Results demonstrate the importance of promoting interdisciplinary research that may promote the elucidation of health inequalities between men and women.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
authors.forename: Prudencia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cerón-Mireles
authors.forename: Constanza I
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Carrillo
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Robledo-Vera
authors.forename: Aurora
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: del Río Zolezzi
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pedrosa-Islas
authors.forename: Hilda
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Reyes-Zapata
authors.forename: Berta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cerón-Mireles
authors.forename: Guadalupe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ordaz-Hernández
authors.forename: Gustavo Adolfo
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Olaiz-Fernández
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*