•      Socially and culturally constructed conditions and processes for women and men, and girls and boys, in the world.

•      At the macro level: Deals with structural and political.

•       At the micro level : Deals with gendered lived experiences

Conditions

Connell model of hegemonic masculinity

◦         If used within a theoretical framework, gender has far more potential to address health issues than merely to be a variable for controlling statistically significant differences between men and women. Gender and power structures are intertwined.

           Connell has presented a theoretical model that might serve as a tool also for public health researchers. She regards all social practices as being gender-structured, and she claims that gender is a property of collectives and institutions as well as historical processes 

. Public health research needs to embrace and encounter gender theory. As the bulk of gender theory emanates from social theory, there is also a need to develop interdisciplinary research collaborations within global public health research. Fruitful analyses and research questions could originate from collaborative efforts between, for instance, legal gender studies, medical sociology and public health gender research