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Translation, Implementation and Engagement

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Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis in Public Health

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Historically, consideration of sex and gender has been neglected in health research and largely ignored in knowledge translation and implementation science. These omissions have led to a dearth of sex- and gender-specific content in public health, which misses crucial opportunities to develop and deliver more personalised and effective policy and practice. Incorporating sex and gender throughout the knowledge-to-action process can improve engagement of the target audience, thus improving buy-in and adoption of new knowledge. In this chapter, we will discuss the rationale and methods for routinely incorporating sex and gender integration in public health knowledge translation and implementation processes. We provide a method for integrating sex and gender through the consideration of five questions: (1) What sex and gender information should be transferred to decision-makers (the message)?; (2) To whom should research knowledge be transferred (are there sex- and/or gender-specific target audiences)?; (3) By whom should research knowledge be transferred (sex and/or gender of the messenger)?; (4) How should sex- and/or gender-related research knowledge be transferred (the knowledge-transfer processes and supporting communications infrastructure)?; (5) With what effect should research knowledge be transferred (evaluation of sex and/or gender outcomes)? Throughout our discussion, we provide examples and suggested positive ways forward.

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  1. Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Krystle van Hoof

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Cara Tannenbaum

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  1. Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Jacqueline Gahagan

  2. Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Mary K. Bryson

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van Hoof, K., Tannenbaum, C. (2021). Translation, Implementation and Engagement. In: Gahagan, J., Bryson, M.K. (eds) Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis in Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71929-6_13

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