Sex, Gender, Race, and Pain Mission and Vision
The Sex, Gender, Race, and Pain Special Interest Group aims to:
- Encourage basic and clinical research on how sex, gender, and race affect pain mechanisms and all realms of its management.
- Provide a central information resource on these issues.
- Develop multidisciplinary discussion groups on subtopics of these issues.
Sex, Gender, Race, and Pain Resources:
- Disparities in Back Pain - 2021 Global Year About Back Pain Factsheet
Pagé MG, deGraft-Johnson KG International Association for the Study of Pain, 2021 - A systematic review of western medicine's understanding of pain experience, expression, assessment, and management for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Arthur L, Rolan P Pain reports. 2019 Nov;4(6) - Limited evidence to measure the impact of chronic pain on health outcomes of Indigenous people
Mittinty MM, McNeil DW, Jamieson LM Journal of psychosomatic research. 2018 Apr;107:53 - Quiet about pain: Experiences of Aboriginal people in two rural communities
Strong J, Nielsen M, Williams M, Huggins J, Sussex R Australian Journal of Rural Health. 2015 Jun;23(3):181-4 - Why we still need to speak about sex differences and sex hormones in pain
Aloisi AM Pain Ther 6, 111–114 (2017) - Chronic pain and sex-differences; women accept and move, while men feel blue.
Rovner GS, Sunnerhagen KS, Björkdahl A, Gerdle B, Börsbo B, Johansson F, Gillanders D PloS one. 2017 Apr 25;12(4):e0175737 - ‘I am absolutely shattered’: The impact of chronic low back pain on Australian Aboriginal people
Lin IB, O'Sullivan PB, Coffin JA, Mak DB, Toussaint S, Straker LM European Journal of Pain. 2012 Oct;16(9):1331-41 - ‘Yarn with me’: applying clinical yarning to improve clinician–patient communication in Aboriginal health care
Lin I, Green C, Bessarab D Australian Journal of Primary Health 2016 Nov 8;22(5):377-82 - 2018 Global Year for Excellence in Pain Education
- 2008 Global Year Against Pain in Women
- 2005 Global Year for the Right to Pain Relief