ABSTRACT
Research in health and social sciences tends to focus on singular dominant identities and population groups. Research shows that some differences matter for how health is obtained and experienced. Originating from feminist health research, sex and gender–based analysis (SGBA) was one of the first diversity-based approaches to emerge and challenge the assumptions that males and females, women and men, are affected similarly by research, policies, programs, health-care delivery and health issues. SGBA is a systematic approach to health research and policy formation that examines biological (sex-based) and sociocultural (gender-based) differences between women and men, boys and girls. The chapter introduces gender and sex based analysis, health equity and the social determinants of health, and intersectionality. Each approach holds the potential to assist health geographers in untangling the complex ways in which differing axes of diversity inform the relationship between health and place.
