Gender is not a biological fact, but a social construction that is shaped by social ideas about typically male and typically female behaviour. These gender roles can be changed and can be influenced politically. In… Read More »Gender Mainstreaming in Health Promotion: The Importance of Gender-Specific Prevention
In March 2024, the European Union adopted the AI Act, which regulates the use of AI in the EU. The act aims to protect fundamental rights, democracy and environmental sustainability from high-risk AI systems and… Read More »The Policies of the EU AI Act in a Overview
1. Healthcare gaps There are still general challenges in the European Union’s healthcare systems, such as a lack of access to healthcare services, low quality of care and poorer outcomes for vulnerable groups [1]. However,… Read More »Closing Healthcare Gaps with AI: Challenges and Opportunities of Integration
In modern medicine, there is a significant difference in the quality and quantity of health data collected and analysed for men and women. This difference, known as the Gender Data Health Gap, has far-reaching consequences… Read More »The Gender Data Health Gap: An Urgent Problem And How We Can Address It
When thin is not beautiful! Christoph Bartl & Reiner Bartl Osteoporosis Centre Munich In today’s blog post, we take an in-depth look at the bone disease osteoporosis. But what exactly is osteoporosis? How does it… Read More »Discover the bone disease Osteoporosis: Causes, Effects and the Role of Gender Medicine
The ‘one-size-fits-all’ theory does not hold water in medicine. Just as it had to be recognised that children are not small adults and require individualised medicine, it has also been established since the women’s rights… Read More »Interaction: Sex, Gender and Health
In this blog post, we look at the existence of women and men in the smallest detail – namely within genetics. This is because the sex of the embryo is already decided at fertilisation: ‘At… Read More »The Genetics of the Sexes: Chromosomes, Autoimmune Diseases and Gender-Specific Differences
Gender differences are crucial in today’s medical landscape, yet they are often overlooked. Gender medicine, an emerging scientific discipline, is rising to this challenge. The question of why you should care about gender medicine is… Read More »Why you need to know about Gender Medicine?
In today’s post, we look at the topic of ‘Prevention within gender medicine’. But why prevention and gender medicine? Studies show that preventive measures are not always equally effective for men and women, because gender… Read More »Prevention and Gender Medicine: The Importance of Differentiated Approaches for Men and Women
..you might ask yourself. Prof Burkhard Sievers from the German Society for Gender-Specific Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschlechtsspezifische Medizin e.V.) sums up the answer quite well: ‘Women are at a disadvantage in both the diagnosis… Read More »Why do women’s hearts need attention?