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ReviewHealth equity2022

Traditional Healers as Health Care Providers for the Latine Community in the United States, a Systematic Review.

Maria L Cruz, Samantha Christie, Estrella Allen, Erika Meza, Anna María Nápoles, Kala M Mehta

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Review in Health equity, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Maria L CruzDepartment of Public Health, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3169-7547
Samantha ChristieDepartment of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA.
Estrella AllenDepartment of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA.
Erika MezaDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Anna María NápolesDivision of Intramural Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Kala M MehtaDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.

Funding

SF BUILD: Enabling Students to Represent in ScienceTL4GM118986 · NIGMS · SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI MARQUEZ-MAGANA, LETICIA MARIA, MORRIS, MEGHAN D · 2015 to 2022
$5.4M
Translating Behavioral Interventions for Health Disparity PopulationsZIAMD000014 · NIMHD · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES · PI CHOI, KELVIN · 2018 to 2023
$4.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS TL4 GM118986
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Due to structural barriers to accessing the biomedical health care system, traditional healers (THs) often serve as the first point of contact for health care by Latine individuals in the United States. A recent assessment of the extent of use of THs by the Latine community is lacking. Methods: We conducted a systematic review of the literature published between 2000 and 2020, to assess the prevalence of use of THs by U.S. Latine individuals, health conditions for which care was sought, reasons for their use, and extent of TH use and dual use that is of biomedical health care and TH together. Primary inclusion criteria for studies included: (1) published in English, (2) focus on THs, (3) pertained to Latine individuals residing in the United States, and (4) published since 2000. Results: Eighty-five studies were reviewed; 33 met inclusion criteria. Under the overarching term of Discussion: The use of THs is highly prevalent for Latine community residing in the United States because they are accessible, affordable, and provide culturally and linguistically compatible care, indicating that they offer an alternative that addresses systemic structural barriers to biomedical health care. Further research on the efficacy and safety of the treatments rendered by THs and how their care might be optimally coordinated with biomedical health care, could improve health equity and access to care among Latine individuals in the United States.

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curanderosespiritualistasLatinesobadorestraditional healersyerberos

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PMID35801152
PMCPMC9257545

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