Gender policy

Writing in Spanish

The journal Anales del Sistema Sanitario de Navarra encourage using concise and fluid scientific communication from the gender perspective. Manuscripts must be written with Inclusive and non-sexist language; it is encouraged to as much as possible using colective nouns (las personas enfermas, la ciudadanía, profesionales de Medicina) instead of the generic masculine noun (los enfermos, los ciudadanos, los médicos). Moreover, the language must be precise, avoiding substantive and/or adjective splitting (las enfermeras y los enfermeros) as well as using bars (los/las enfermeros/as). Notwithstanding, once the gender perspective was stablished, and given that effective communication is the priority, authors must follow the guidelines from the Real Academia de la Lengua española RAE and use the generic masculine noun or that of the predominant sex in a group (las enfermeras).

Design and analysis

When the biological variable sex when is registered, do not refer to it as gender (social construct about roles and behaviors associated to each sex). Authors are encouraged to disaggregate resuts by sex following the SAGER guidelines (Heidari y col. 2016: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41073-016-0007-6). Briefly:

• a sufficient number of both women and men should be included in order to present data disaggregated by sex (and/or gender) and discuss their implications;
• if a sex (and/or gender) analysis was not conducted, authors should give the rationale, and further discuss the implications of the lack of such analysis on the interpretation of the results;
• if the study is carried out in a single sex, it must be clearly specified and justified the reasons for any exclusion of females or males (also if one sex is not adequately representated).