Endometriosis is a burdensome gynaecological condition linked to the culturally variable concepts of menstruation and reproduction. Despite this, qualitative endometriosis research has been concentrated in high-income, anglophone countries. This systematic review and narrative synthesis primarily aimed to provide updated insights on endometriosis experiences, whilst secondarily investigating improvements in research diversity and reporting of socio-cultural experiences.

Introduction: Suboptimal cardiovascular health is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes and long-term cardiovascular risk. The authors examined trends in cardiovascular risk factors and correlates of suboptimal cardiovascular risk profiles among reproductive-aged U.S. women.

Objectives: Lack of ethnic diversity in trials may contribute to health disparities and to inequity in health outcomes. The primary objective was to investigate the experiences and perspectives of ethnically diverse populations about how to improve ethnic diversity in trials. Study Design and Setting: Qualitative data were collected via 16 focus groups with participants from 21 ethnically diverse communities in Australia.

Decisions about which contraceptives to use are a key component of a couple's “fertility work,” and these decisions can be made in homogamous or heterogamous couple contexts. Relative resource theory and the strain perspective suggest that heterogamy may lead to differences in bargaining power or higher levels of discordance within couples, thereby affecting the distribution of fertility work and decisions about which contraceptives a couple will use.

This study investigates how family support influences career success among Chinese university teachers, employing a moderated mediation model. Results from 348 faculty surveys show that family support boosts career success both directly and indirectly through time management and career adaptability individually, though not sequentially. Work-to-family conflict negatively moderates these relationships. Gender differences exist: family support directly affects women's career success, while for men, its effect is fully mediated by time management and career adaptability.

This commentary draws attention to The National Medical Commission (NMC) in India for its revised curriculum of medical education where they have reintroduced ‘lesbianism’ and ‘sodomy’ as sexual offenses, compromising queer affirmative and inclusive access to medical care.

Ableism is a type of discriminatory bias, like racism and sexism, that one standard human norm exists and any ways of being human that don’t meet this standard are considered inferior. This paper interrogates the impact of ableism on providing optimal paediatric care for children with disabilities and how the pervasiveness of ableist discrimination impacts on children's health and well-being (SDG3) and heightens inequalities (SDG10).

This qualitative study investigates how pre-service special education teachers develop Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) self-efficacy, revealing generally low confidence levels influenced by direct and observed experiences with CRT and personal interactions with diversity.

This study investigates vocabulary development and lexical integration in children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who use augmentative or alternative communication (AAC).

This study explores how students’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness at school relate to their wellbeing, focusing on girls, students with special educational needs (SEN), and low socioeconomic status (SES) students