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Indigenous peoples and the COVID-19 pandemic : a systematic scoping review
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COVID- Observatories Team (Including: Pickering, Kerrie, Galappaththi, Eranga K., Ford, James D., Singh, Chandni, Zavaleta-Cortijo, Carol, Hyams, Keith D., Miranda, J. Jaime, Arotoma-Rojas, Ingrid, Togarepi, Cecil, Kaur, Harpreet, Arvind, Jasmitha, Scanlon, Halena, Namanya, Didacus B. and Anza-Ramirez, Cecilia). (2023) Indigenous peoples and the COVID-19 pandemic : a systematic scoping review. Environmental Research Letters, 18 (3). 033001. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/acb804 ISSN 1748-9326.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acb804
Abstract
Past influenza pandemics including the Spanish flu and H1N1 have disproportionately affected Indigenous Peoples. We conducted a systematic scoping review to provide an overview of the state of understanding of the experience of Indigenous peoples during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, in doing so we capture the state of knowledge available to governments and decision makers for addressing the needs of Indigenous peoples in these early months of the pandemic. We addressed three questions: (a) How is COVID-19 impacting the health and livelihoods of Indigenous peoples, (b) What system level challenges are Indigenous peoples experiencing, (c) How are Indigenous peoples responding? We searched Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed databases and UN organization websites for publications about Indigenous peoples and COVID-19. Results were analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analysis. A total of 153 publications were included: 140 peer-reviewed articles and 13 from UN organizations. Editorial/commentaries were the most (43%) frequent type of publication. Analysis identified Indigenous peoples from 19 different countries, although 56% of publications were centered upon those in Brazil, United States, and Canada. The majority (90%) of articles focused upon the general adult population, few (<2%) used a gender lens. A small number of articles documented COVID-19 testing (0.04%), incidence (18%), or mortality (16%). Five themes of system level challenges affecting exposure and livelihoods evolved: ecological, poverty, communication, education and health care services. Responses were formal and informal strategies from governments, Indigenous organizations and communities. A lack of ethnically disaggregated health data and a gender lens are constraining our knowledge, which is clustered around a limited number of Indigenous peoples in mostly high-income countries. Many Indigenous peoples have autonomously implemented their own coping strategies while government responses have been largely reactive and inadequate. To ‘build back better’ we must address these knowledge gaps.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Environmental Research Letters | ||||||
Publisher: | IOP Publishing | ||||||
ISSN: | 1748-9326 | ||||||
Official Date: | 13 February 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 18 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Article Number: | 033001 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1088/1748-9326/acb804 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | ** From IOP Publishing via Jisc Publications Router ** History: received 24-05-2022; revised 17-10-2022; oa-requested 21-10-2022; accepted 01-02-2023; epub 13-02-2023; open-access 13-02-2023; ppub 01-03-2023. ** Licence for this article: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 April 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 April 2023 | ||||||
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