热带医学期刊中的权力不平衡:对编辑委员会代表性的分析
Sushree Nibedita Panda1, Manish Barik2, P Ratna3
1The George Institute for Global Health, Hyderabad, India.
Tropical medicine and health
|July 10, 2025
概括
热带医学杂志的编辑委员会显示出严重的性别和地理不平等,过度代表高收入国家和男性. 解决这些差异对于全球卫生公平性和研究相关性至关重要.
科学领域:
- 全球健康 全球健康
- 热带医学 热带医学
- 健康 公平 卫生 公平
背景情况:
- 热带医学的殖民起源延续了全球卫生不平等,使低收入和中等收入国家 (LMICs) 在研究议程设置中被边缘化.
- 热带医学的编辑委员会由来自高收入国家 (HIC) 的学者占主导地位,有可能将特有地区的特定背景专业知识排除在外.
研究的目的:
- 通过性别,地理,社会经济和地缘政治方面检查热带医学期刊编辑委员会的多样性.
- 评估热带医学出版物的编辑结构中的系统不平等.
主要方法:
- 国家医学图书馆目录的系统搜索确定了24个相关的热带医学期刊.
- 用描述性统计数据提取和分析了2,226名编辑委员会成员的数据,包括性别,隶属国家 (按世界银行收入/地区) 和地缘政治群体 (G7,G20,金) 的数据.
主要成果:
- 编辑委员会主要由男性组成 (66%),并与高收入国家 (52.8%) 相关.
- 非洲撒哈拉以南地区 (11.2%),南亚 (9.7%) 和中东和北非 (3.4%) 的代表性明显不足.
- 地缘政治代表性显示,来自G7 (40.3%) 和G20 (67.1%) 国家的代表性过高,一些期刊表现出极端的区域主导地位.
结论:
- 热带医学编辑委员会表现出根深蒂固的不平等,通过HIC和男性的过度代表来反映殖民遗产.
- 这种不平衡损害了研究的相关性和伦理完整性,因为全球北方议程优先于受热带疾病影响最严重的人口需求.
- 实施多样性,公平性和包容性 (DEI) 倡议,为LMIC研究人员提供指导计划,以及透明的招聘实践对于一个更加公平和全球相关的编辑环境至关重要.
相关概念视频
Threats to Biodiversity
There have been five major extinction events throughout geological history, resulting in the elimination of biodiversity, followed by a rebound of species that adapted to the new conditions. In the current geological epoch, the Holocene, there is a sixth extinction event in progress. This mass extinction has been attributed to human activities and is thus provisionally called the Anthropocene. In 2019 the human population reached 7.7 billion people and is projected to comprise 10 billion by...
Biodiversity and Human Values
Human civilization relies on biodiversity in many ways. Sudden changes in species biodiversity result in environmental changes that can modify weather patterns and therefore human civilizations.
Frequency-dependent Selection
When the fitness of a trait is influenced by how common it is (i.e., its frequency) relative to different traits within a population, this is referred to as frequency-dependent selection. Frequency-dependent selection may occur between species or within a single species. This type of selection can either be positive—with more common phenotypes having higher fitness—or negative, with rarer phenotypes conferring increased fitness.Positive Frequency-Dependent SelectionIn positive...
International Nursing Organizations II
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations based in Geneva. The WHO has many initiatives that center around health. Primarily, they lead global efforts to expand universal health coverage using science-based policies and programs. They are also responsible for shaping health research agendas and developing norms and standards.
The WHO provides expert team support, including funding, vaccines, testing, and treatment tools at the country level to fight...
The WHO provides expert team support, including funding, vaccines, testing, and treatment tools at the country level to fight...
Imbalances in Cardiac Output
The heart's primary function is to pump blood throughout the body, maintaining a balance between blood sent out (cardiac output) and blood returning (venous return). If this balance is disrupted, it can result in congestive heart failure (CHF), a severe condition where the heart becomes an inefficient pump, leading to inadequate blood circulation.
CHF can occur due to the failure of either side of the heart. Left-side failure leads to pulmonary congestion—the right side continues to send blood...
CHF can occur due to the failure of either side of the heart. Left-side failure leads to pulmonary congestion—the right side continues to send blood...
Malaria
Malaria pathogenesis in humans reflects a delicate interplay between parasite biology and host response. Clinical illness reflects a host’s immune response to the parasite’s asexual replication cycle, which is often asymptomatic in individuals with partial immunity. From the parasite's perspective, transmission between mosquito and human with minimal host pathology is evolutionarily advantageous. Among the six Plasmodium species infecting humans, P. falciparum and P. vivax dominate in global...


