Analysis of gender perspective in the use of NANDA‐I nursing diagnoses: A systematic review

Abstract

Health is a complex process determined by the interrelation of biological, environmental, psychological and social factors and it can be experienced differently by women and men (Valls-Llobet, 2003, 2011. In this sense, gender, social class and culture, among others, are determinants in the health-disease process, which is why differences and inequalities in health due to sex/ gender can also occur (Rifà-Ros et al., 2018;Ruiz-Cantero & Verdú-Delgado, 2004).According to the World Health Organization (WHO), gender refers to the roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men, women, boys, girls and people with non-binary identities (World Health Organization, 2018). In contemporary globalized societies and in regards to health, gender is understood as a socio-cultural construct that becomes normative