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Gender-based medicine encompasses sex differences (genetic, biological, and phenotypic) but goes beyond these to include the broader social, cultural, and normative factors that affect health. Its roots are partly embedded in the women’s health movement of the 1970s, since through the recognition of women’s health came the acknowledgement of gender differences. However, gender medicine is not women’s health and it is it not binary. It extends past the health of women to create new prototypes of male health, as well as to encompass the biological and social aspects of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBT) people.

As with gender medicine, the working definition of disparities extends past a simple one that only accounts for an identified difference between two groups to subsume the idea of social justice. The term is used in keeping with the World Health Organization’s perspective that notes that disparities include a difference between two groups that is viewed as being unfair and unjust, as well as being both unnecessary and avoidable. Further, when determining disparities, equity and not equality needs to be considered through the assessment of need as well as of outcomes, since equal treatment may in fact perpetuate a disparity.