The use of language when dealing with gender and sex is important: in the field of health inequalities, it is important to recognise these two factors and how they interact in patients’ health and outcomes.

While sex is important for considerations of disease and genetic or biological risk, gender carries importance in the aspect of behaviours, systemic barriers to health care, and social determinants of health inequality. To acknowledge one does not devalue the other. To ignore gender or see it as synonymous with sex …