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This version was published on December 1, 2006
Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 33, No. 6, 731-743 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1090198106288043
© 2006 Society for Public Health Education

Perspective: Gender as a Health Determinant and Implications for Health Education

Karina W. Davidson, PhD

622 W. 168thth Street, PH9 Center, Rm. 948, Behavioral, Cardiovascular Health & Hypertension Program, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York 10032

Kimberlee J. Trudeau, PhD

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

Erica van Roosmalen, PhD

Independent scholar/consultant, Ontario, Canada

Miriam Stewart, PhD

Institute of Gender and Health, University of Albert, Canada

Susan Kirkland, PhD

Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Gender is a health determinant, but gender itself is influenced, in part, by biological and psychological variables. Understanding gender's influence on health therefore requires an understanding of the determinants of the construct gender. A review of certain gender determinants is presented. The authors consider the modifiability of these determinants and present recommendations about which of these determinants should be targeted for health promotion and policy creation activities. In concluding, they argue that gender is a multidetermined construct that encompasses many factors that may be modifiable through intervention, and consideration of all of these factors should be vigorously pursued.

Key Words: gender • theory • determinants • policy • review


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