Health Care

Gender vs. sex, and why they matter in health care

When asked to help people understand the difference between gender and sex, I often start by explaining that sex is what’s between your legs and gender is what’s between your ears.

So, when we talk about sex, we’re referring to our anatomical and physical traits, primarily genitalia. This is sometimes referred to as “sex assigned at birth” and is the sex that appears on a birth certificate.

More than a number

Numbers become people with stories and faces, and statistics are memories and names. For assistant professor of health behavior and health promotion Julianna Nemeth, PhD, MA, her research with domestic violence survivors is more than “just a job.” Engaging with real women suffering from real-world problems brings her research to life.

Breaking Ground

As Congressional leaders spent much of the year debating various options for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, we have heard about premiums and deductibles, CBO scores, the federal deficit, tax cuts, funding caps, the fate of the individual mandate, and pre-existing conditions. But one word that has barely been mentioned in the health care discussion is this one: children.

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