These findings need to be treated with caution given that the overall literature is inadequate, with gender often under reported and analysed.
Sport is also playing a role in helping nations reach the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, which aim to improve the lives of the world's poorest people by addressing problems of disease, inadequate shelter, gender inequality and environmental degradation – especially those involving girls and young women.
Additionally, some socio-demographic and behavioral indicators that prone an individual to increased caries experience include: presence of plaque, poor oral hygiene, increasing age, gender, inadequate tooth-brushing habits, frequency and timing of consumption of sugar-containing drinks [ 15].
Although there was respect for policy supporting abstinence and fidelity, it was seen as hard to follow and offering inadequate protection when gender imbalance put pressure on women to have sex.
Knowledge of commonly used stroke scales was severely inadequate regardless of gender, academic qualifications, practice duration, or practice location.
Age, gender, inadequate antifungal therapy, Charlson score of ≥3, and neoplasia were not significant predictors of mortality on univariate analysis.
The inadequate control of gender effects can also lead to inconsistent results with respect to the influence of social support on the adherence in dialysis patients [ 24].
Barriers to patient activation include specific sociodemographic and clinical characteristics (e.g. male gender, inadequate knowledge, low health literacy and depression) [ 26, 27].
Other risk factors for childhood drowning in Bangladesh include inadequate supervision, male gender, and the monsoon/rainy season (April September) (46).
Yet in many countries, public health budgets remain low, access to health services, especially in rural areas, remains inadequate, and pervasive gender inequality and discrimination continues to hamper efforts to roll out HIV prevention, treatment and care, and also scale up access to maternal and child health services.
