title: Integrating gender medicine into the workplace health and safety policy in the scientific research institutions: a mandatory task.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Gender medicine is a multi-faceted field of investigation integrating various aspects of psycho-social and biological sciences but it mainly deals with the impact of the gender on human physiology, pathophysiology, and clinical features of diseases. In Italy, the Decree Law 81/2008 recently introduced the gender issue in the risk assessment at the workplaces.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This review briefly describes our current knowledge on gender medicine and on the Italian legislation in risk management.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Public or private scientific institutions should be the first to pay attention to the safety of their workers, who are simultaneously subjected to biological, chemical and physical agents. Main tasks of risk management in scientific research institutions are here analyzed and discussed in a gender perspective.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento del Farmaco, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Anna Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Giammarioli
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Siracusano
authors.forename: Eugenio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sorrentino
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bettoni
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Malorni
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005062:European Union; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012308:Risk Management; D012449:Safety / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000503:physiopathology; D017132:Workplace / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*