Table 6.

Quantitative studies included in this review, stratified by type of evidence provided.

Box: Number and percentage of qualitative studies identified
Type of Evidence	n	%
Historical evidence of the contrast between advances in political-legal recognition and structural and institutional discrimination, racial inequalities in health, and racism as a socio-historical phenomenon.	10	16.14
Evidence of racial inequalities in the health status of the population as a public health issue.	8	12.90
Evidence on the concepts used in censuses, surveys, and studies to define management of ethnic/racial variables.	7	11.29
Evidence on the ways in which ethnic and ethnic-territorial representations and stereotypes with effects on social behaviors, such as racism and sexist racism, are generated and reproduced.	3	4.84
Qualitative evidence on elements which define people as being of African descent, such as physical characteristics, identity, social and territorial sense of belonging, cultural traditions, historicity, organizational processes, and religious myths.	2	3.22
Evidence on traditional medicine and midwifery among people of African descent.	2	3.22
TOTAL	33	51.61

Source: Own work.