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Background: currently, it is estimated that indigenous peoples represent 370 to 500 million people worldwide, owning, occupying or using approximately 22% of the entire global area [1]. According to the World Health Organization, indigenous communities are living among other populations, but maintaining their cultural and social traditions [2] This situation raises concerns about their vulnerability, including health status, mainly due to the constant financial and non-financial interests in the areas they live in.
Objectives: to identify Cochrane Reviews (CR) that considered indigenous people as the population of interest.
Methods: through a sensitive search (Table 1) in the Cochrane Library, two authors identified all CRs that considered indigenous people as the main population of interest or as a subgroup. Protocols and withdrawn reviews were excluded.
Results: of the 647 CRs retrieved, 4 fulfilled our elegibility criteria: 3 that focused on indigenous populations and 1 that considered it as a subgroup of interest. The results are presented in Table 2. It is important to highlight that no specific search term for indigenous poopulations was identified during the elaboration of our search strategy.
Conclusions: despite the presence of a considerable indigenous population co-living with other ethnics groups around the world, few CRs were found addressing this population.
Patient or healthcare consumer involvement: despite the presence of a considerable indigenous population co-living with other ethnics groups around the world, few CRs were found addressing this population. Strategies should be identified for reducing this inequity.
Objectives: to identify Cochrane Reviews (CR) that considered indigenous people as the population of interest.
Methods: through a sensitive search (Table 1) in the Cochrane Library, two authors identified all CRs that considered indigenous people as the main population of interest or as a subgroup. Protocols and withdrawn reviews were excluded.
Results: of the 647 CRs retrieved, 4 fulfilled our elegibility criteria: 3 that focused on indigenous populations and 1 that considered it as a subgroup of interest. The results are presented in Table 2. It is important to highlight that no specific search term for indigenous poopulations was identified during the elaboration of our search strategy.
Conclusions: despite the presence of a considerable indigenous population co-living with other ethnics groups around the world, few CRs were found addressing this population.
Patient or healthcare consumer involvement: despite the presence of a considerable indigenous population co-living with other ethnics groups around the world, few CRs were found addressing this population. Strategies should be identified for reducing this inequity.
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