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Indigenous Health

National Initiatives and Organizations

 
National Indigenous Elder Justice Initiative - browse published research, toolkits, presentations, etc.
 
 
National Resource Center on Native American Aging -  browse published research, toolkits, presentations, etc.
 

Academic Article databases

Most databases have search filters for age that allow you to narrow your search to a particular age group, but you can also use search terms to indicate the age group you are researching:

 
  • PubMed Medical subject headings (Mesh) relevant to Indigenous health

("Frail Elderly"[Mesh])

("Aged"[Mesh])

("Housing for the Elderly"[Mesh])

("Health Services for the Aged"[Mesh] )

("Alaskan Natives"[Mesh])

("American Native Continental Ancestry Group"[Mesh])

("Ethnopharmacology"[Mesh])

("Health Services, Indigenous"[Mesh])

("Indians, North American"[Mesh])

("Inuits"[Mesh])

("Medicine, Traditional

("United States Indian Health Service

 

  • CINAHL subject headings relevant to Indigenous health

(MH "Health Services for the Aged")

(MH "Housing for the Elderly")

(MH "Frail Elderly")

(MH "Employment of Older Workers")

(MH "Aged, 80 and Over")

(MH "Aged")

(MH "Aged, Hospitalized")

(MH "Gerontologic Care")

(MH "Geriatrics")

(MH "Traditional Healers")

(MH "Native Americans")  [NOTE: "For native peoples of the United States and non-Arctic Alaska regions"]

(MH "Medicine, Traditional")

(MH "Medicine, Native American")

(MH "Inuit")  [NOTE: "Group of culturally similar indigenous peoples of Arctic and near-Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland."

(MH "Indigenous Peoples")

(MH "Health Services, Indigenous")

(MH "Eskimos") [Note: "For genetic and physiological as well as cultural and social discussion of Eskimos."