ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2016
Effect of Gender on the Knowledge of Medicinal Plants: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Comparing Perspectives on Traditional and Complementary Medicine Use in Oncology: Insights from Healthcare Professionals and Oncology Patients in Western Mexico.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Article
- An ethnopharmacological assessment of medicinal plants in Malanje Municipality, Angola.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
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- Ethnobotanical contributions to global fishing communities: a review.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2023Review
- Ethnobotanical Insights: Qualitative Analysis of Medicinal Plants in Colón Putumayo for Traditional Knowledge Preservation.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- The traditional use of wild edible plants in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of Mieso District, eastern Ethiopia.Tropical medicine and health · 2023Article
- Traditional knowledge of plants used in hunting and fishing practices among Baka hunter-gatherers of eastern Cameroon.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2023Article
- Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by the people of Mosop, Nandi County in Kenya.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Knowledge of medicinal plants is not only one of the main components in the structure of knowledge in local medical systems but also one of the most studied resources. This study uses a systematic review and meta-analysis of a compilation of ethnobiological studies with a medicinal plant component and the variable of gender to evaluate whether there is a gender-based pattern in medicinal plant knowledge on different scales (national, continental, and global). In this study, three types of meta-analysis are conducted on different scales. We detect no significant differences on the global level; women and men have the same rich knowledge. On the national and continental levels, significant differences are observed in both directions (significant for men and for women), and a lack of significant differences in the knowledge of the genders is also observed. This finding demonstrates that there is no gender-based pattern for knowledge on different scales.
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