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Review
. 2021 Oct 18;10(20):4770.
doi: 10.3390/jcm10204770.

The Person's Care Requires a Sex and Gender Approach

Ilaria Campesi  1   2 , Andrea Montella  2 , Giuseppe Seghieri  3 , Flavia Franconi  1
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Review

The Person's Care Requires a Sex and Gender Approach

Ilaria Campesi et al. J Clin Med. .

Abstract

There is an urgent need to optimize pharmacology therapy with a consideration of high interindividual variability and economic costs. A sex-gender approach (which considers men, women, and people of diverse gender identities) and the assessment of differences in sex and gender promote global health, avoiding systematic errors that generate results with low validity. Care for people should consider the single individual and his or her past and present life experiences, as well as his or her relationship with care providers. Therefore, intersectoral and interdisciplinary studies are urgently required. It is desirable to create teams made up of men and women to meet the needs of both. Finally, it is also necessary to build an alliance among regulatory and ethic authorities, statistics, informatics, the healthcare system and providers, researchers, the pharmaceutical and diagnostic industries, decision makers, and patients to overcome the gender gap in medicine and to take real care of a person in an appropriate manner.

Keywords: caregiver; doctors’ prescribing patterns; interdisciplinary; sex–gender; social aspects.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflict of interest.

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Factors that influence the pharmacological response.
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