北美地区传统医学研究概况

Traditional Indigenous Medicine in North America:A Scoping Review

尽管一直有关于北美原住民传统医学治疗方法和从业人员的官方记录,但大部分西医从业人员对北美传统医学并不了解。目前,大约有750万原住民居住在加拿大和美国,大部分都在享受西医医疗服务。通过检索数据库,共筛选出4277篇相关文献,符合纳入标准的共249篇,分为五个类别:传统医学概况、传统医学与西医结合、仪式性治疗、传统医学的应用、传统医学治疗师的观点。对北美地区原住民传统医学的相关情况进行综述,为医务工作者、学者以及社会大众提供更全面的信息,将有助于传统医学医疗行为规范和相关政策的制定。

Despite the documented continued use of traditional healing methods,modalities and its associated practitioners by Indigenous groups across North America,it is presumed that widespread knowledge is elusive amongst most Western trained health professionals and systems.This despite that the approximately 7.5 million Indigenous peoples who currently reside in Canada and the United States(US)are most often served by Western systems of medicine.A state of the literature is currently needed in this area to provide an accessible resource tool for medical practitioners,scholars,and communities to better understand Indigenous traditional medicine in the context of current clinical care delivery and future policy making.