Table 1 Summary of the search strategy used for the systematic review
1. | Type of literature | Source |
|---|---|---|
a | Published material | · Medline, |
· The Excerpta Medica Database –EMBASE-, | ||
· The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health –CINAHL-, | ||
· Sociological Abstracts, | ||
· Scopus, | ||
· Lilacs, | ||
· ISI Web of Knowledge -Web of Science, Current Contents and ISI Proceedings- and | ||
· Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts –ASSIA | ||
B | Grey Literature | · The Centre for Health Care Strategies, |
· OpenSIGLE, | ||
· The International Centre for Migration and Health, | ||
· The UC atlas of Global inequality and | ||
· Google Scholar. | ||
2. | Search Terms | · Free terms: Delivery of health care, Health care, Public health, Healthcare disparities, Health Services Accessibility, Immigrant, Migrant (Demographic, Economic, Socioeconomic, Cultural boundaries). |
· MeSH terms (U.S National Library of Medicine 2011): Immigrant and [delivery of health care; health care -public health-; healthcare disparities; Health services accessibility]. | ||
· For the other databases, the strategy was adapted accordingly to the specific thesaurus and free terms. |