%0 Journal Article %T Aplicaci¨®n de la perspectiva de g¨¦nero en art¨ªculos publicados en cuatro revistas nacionales de salud, M¨¦xico, 2000-2003 %A Cer¨®n-Mireles %A Prudencia %A S¨¢nchez-Carrillo %A Constanza I. %A Robledo-Vera %A Cecilia %A Zolezzi %A Aurora del R¨ªo %A Pedrosa-Islas %A Laura %A Reyes-Zapata %A Hilda %A Cer¨®n-Mireles %A Berta %A Ordaz-Hern¨¢ndez %A Guadalupe %A Olaiz-Fern¨¢ndez %A Gustavo Adolfo %J Salud P¨²blica de M¨¦xico %D 2006 %I Instituto Nacional de Salud P¨²blica %R 10.1590/S0036-36342006000400008 %X objective: the objective of this study was to determine the application of gender perspective in public health papers in four journals published by the mexican national health institutes. material and methods: a total of 999 papers published in the four journals between 2000 and 2003 was reviewed. two levels of analysis were considered: a) data presented by sex, providing description of differences between women and men, and b) the analysis of these differences from gender perspective. results: one quarter (25.4%) of the articles described results by sex. the largest percentage was published in salud p¨²blica de m¨¦xico (48.8%) and the smallest in revista de investigaci¨®n cl¨ªnica (16.1%). gender perspective was used in only 4.2% of papers; of these, drug addictions, health behaviour and violence were the topics that occurred most frequently. conclusions: this is the first study to assess the application of gender perspective in mexican health articles. similarly to other countries, a very small percentage of authors analyzed sex differences, and a smaller proportion applied gender perspective. results demonstrate the importance of promoting interdisciplinary research that may promote the elucidation of health inequalities between men and women. %K gender %K health research %K gender-sensitive research %K mexico. %U http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0036-36342006000400008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en