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Table 1 Search strategy

From: Hispano-Americans in Europe: what do we know about their health status and determinants? A scoping review

 

Concept and search fields

Data base

Migrant

Hispano-American

Embase 1980–2014 (Week 20)

inmigr*,immigr*,emigr*, migrant*

central america*, south america*, southamerica*, latin america*, latinamerica*,hispano america*,hispanoamerica*, ibero america*, iberoamerica*,iberian america*, hispanic america*, andean* argentin*, bolivia*, chile*, colombia*,costa rica*, costarica*, cuba*, ecuador*, equador*, salvador*, guatemala*, hondura*, mexic*, nicaragua*, panama*, paraguay*, peru*, puerto ric*, puertoric*, dominican*, uruguay*, venezuel*

Global Health 1910–2014 (Week 19)

Search fields: subject heading,title

Ovid MEDLINE (R) 1946- May 2014 (Week 2)

Social Policy and Practice, 2014-04

Search fields:subject heading, title,abstract

LILACS

migracion$, migrante$, inmigra$, emigra$

 

Search fields: key word

  1. */$ = truncation symbols used as substitutes for any string of zero or more characters in the search terms.