Chapter 8 208 In summary, these chapters highlight the importance of considering gender as a multidimensional social construct in PD research. They emphasize the need for precise gender measures, contextual understanding of gender dimensions, and the use of multimethod approaches to capture nuanced insights into the impact of gender on health outcomes and illness experiences in PD. Gender-sensitive PD research could further develop by focusing on how people are ‘doing gender’ and when and how this impacts individual health and care needs of people with PD. Integrating social theory in the study of gender in the field of PD is essential as it provides a framework for analysing how social structures related to gender shape health outcomes of people with PD, thereby contributing to more conceptual clarity, analytical consistency and comparability of gender sensitive PD research.
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