Produção científica sobre saúde indígena na biblioteca virtual em saúde Brasil (BVS): um estudo bibliométrico
Resumen
The history of indigenous population has been marked by tragic epidemics of infectious and
parasitic diseases and in 2020, with the pandemic of COVID-19, the political, social and
environmental vulnerability of these populations is even more evident. Therefore, it is
considered essential to know the scientific production about these populations considered
vulnerable due to their space and socio-cultural expropriation and how close it is to the
priority needs of health care. This study is justified in the sense of contributing to identify
knowledge producers in research on indigenous health, providing evidence of institutional
centrality and the possibility of greater investment in research in indigenous health. The
Science, Technology, Society field allows us to analyze aspects that provide this construction:
who researches, what is researched and for whom it is researched. Thus, the research has as its
general objective to map and quantify the scientific activity in Brazilian indigenous health
through bibliometric methods considering the year of publication, journal, author and
keywords. As for the methodological procedures, it is classified as descriptive with a
quantitative approach. The informational source chosen for the research was the Virtual
Health Library Brazil, which is an integral part of the Virtual Health Library for Latin
America and the Caribbean and to assist in the organization of the data, the StArt tool was
used. From the search strings used in the VHL Brazil portal, 1083 articles were identified;
after reading the articles and predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria, 126 articles were
kept for analysis purposes. For the discussion of articles from the perspective of Science,
Technology and Society, it was considered important to indicate: indigenous cultural issues
on each theme; change in habits and aspects related to technologies. The year indicator
showed considerable growth only in 2014, with more periods of stability than growth or
retraction of publications. The periodical indicator presented the Public Health Notebook with
the largest number of publications. Regarding the author indicator, the one that most
published in the analyzed period was Santos, Ricardo Ventura. And from the indicator of the
keywords of the articles, it was possible to find out which themes were most addressed in the
period from 2010 to 2018 and they are: oral health, followed by women's health, tuberculosis,
nursing and surveillance and nutritional status. As a limitation of the research, in order to
better understand the scientific progress in relation to the recovered targeted subjects through
the StArt tool research, it should be pointed out the need for an analysis of the articles in
relation to the methodological issues; it would also be interesting to expand the study to
books, theses and dissertations and scientific events. In addition, it was observed that the
theme of women's health has 4 lines of research in the Research Priority Agenda of the
Ministry of Health, which would be a specific theme to be studied in new research.
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