Female authorship positions in health economic evaluations: a cross-sectional analysis

IF 1.5 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Gaceta Sanitaria Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.gaceta.2024.102402

Lisa Caulley , Laura Tejedor-Romero , Manuel Ridao , Ferrán Catalá-López

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Abstract

Objective

To investigate the gender of the authors who publish articles of health economic evaluations in medicine and healthcare journals.

Method

We evaluated a random sample of economic evaluations indexed in MEDLINE during 2019. Gender of the first, last and corresponding author was determined by review of the author's first name. Data were summarized as frequency and percentage for categorical items and median and interquartile range (IQR) for continuous items. We also calculated the index of authors per paper.

Results

We included 200 studies with 1365 authors (median of 6 authors per paper; IQR: 4-9). Gender identification was possible for all authors in the study sample: 802 (59%) were men and 563 (41%) were women. The number of female first, last, and corresponding authors respectively were 78 (39%), 68 (34%), and 80 (40%) for health economic evaluations.

Discussion

Female scientists were underrepresented as co-authors and in prominent authorship positions in health economic evaluations. This study serves as a call to action for the scientific community to actively work towards equity and inclusion.

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健康经济评估中的女性作者位置：横断面分析。

目的调查在医学和医疗保健期刊上发表卫生经济评价文章的作者的性别：我们对 2019 年 MEDLINE 索引的经济评价文章进行了随机抽样评估。通过查看作者姓名确定第一作者、最后作者和通讯作者的性别。分类项目的数据汇总为频率和百分比，连续项目的数据汇总为中位数和四分位数间距 (IQR)。我们还计算了每篇论文的作者指数：结果：我们纳入了 200 项研究，共有 1365 位作者（中位数为每篇论文 6 位作者；IQR：4-9）。研究样本中所有作者的性别均可识别：802 位（59%）为男性，563 位（41%）为女性。女性第一作者、最后作者和通讯作者的人数分别为 78 人（39%）、68 人（34%）和 80 人（40%）：讨论：在卫生经济学评价中，女性科学家作为共同作者和主要作者的比例偏低。这项研究呼吁科学界采取行动，积极努力实现公平和包容。

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来源期刊

Gaceta Sanitaria 医学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生

CiteScore

4.10

自引率

5.30%

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审稿时长

29 days

期刊介绍： Gaceta Sanitaria (Health Gazette) is an international journal that accepts articles in Spanish and in English. It is the official scientific journal of the Sociedad Española de Salud Publica y Administración Sanitaria (Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Administration) (SESPAS). The Journal publishes 6 issues per year on different areas of Public Health and Health Administration, including: -Applied epidemiology- Health prevention and promotion- Environmental health- International health- Management and assessment of policies and services- Health technology assessments- Health economics. The editorial process is regulated by a peer review system. It publishes original works, reviews, opinion articles, field and methodology notes, protocols, letters to the editor, editorials, and debates.