Health-related stigma among Indigenous Peoples in Canada: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Indigenous communities in Canada are disproportionately affected by health conditions linked to stigma, warranting the attention of researchers seeking to understand this culturally-determined phenomenon. This study explores the scope of research on health-related stigma conducted with the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples.

Method

We conducted a scoping review using the method described by Arksey and O'Malley. We searched health and social science databases from 1963 to present using the subject headings Stigma and Health delimited by terms indexing over 600 Indigenous groups in Canada. Within the 1,852 results, we searched for reports in which the construct stigma was used to describe some facet of the participants' experience of a health condition. We excl

SUBMITTER: Rourke L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12011227 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature