Table 3.

Summary of the search string that was developed to search databases for research about Circumpolar Inuit, country food, and human health topics (1995–2019). Asterisk (*) represents wildcard symbol used to capture other words beginning with the same letters.

Search String Components	Search String
Circumpolar Inuit **	Circumpolar OR Inuit* OR Inuvialuit OR Inupiat OR Yupik OR Yup’ik OR Eskimo* OR Aleut* OR arctic OR subarctic OR “Alaskan native” OR “Northern Canada” OR Nunangat OR Kalaallit OR Nunavut OR Greenland OR Nunatsiavut OR Inuvialuit OR Nunavik OR NunatuKavut OR Chukchi
Country food consumption	food OR diet
Human health	health OR disease* OR infect* OR syndrom* OR nutrition OR malnutrition OR wellness OR wellbeing
Final Search String used in CAB Direct ®	(Circumpolar OR Inuit* OR Inuvialuit OR Inupiat OR Yupik OR Yup’ik OR Eskimo* OR Aleut* OR arctic OR subarctic OR “Alaskan native” OR “Northern Canada” OR Nunangat OR Kalaallit OR Nunavut OR Greenland OR Nunatsiavut OR Inuvialuit OR Nunavik OR NunatuKavut OR Chukchi) AND (food OR diet) AND (health OR disease* OR infect* OR syndrom* OR nutrition OR malnutrition OR wellness OR wellbeing)

** Terms used to identify Circumpolar Inuit were based on both umbrella terms for Inuit as well as individual group names. Note, to develop a search string that would capture all research that is potentially relevant to Inuit, the authors also had to acknowledge a long history of unethical and harmful research that has been conducted on Inuit, and associated terminology used in reference to them. As such, this search string includes terms that are offensive and have been historically used to marginalize Inuit. The use of these terms in no way reflect the authors’ beliefs or relations with Inuit. Additionally, all articles generated by this search string were evaluated to ensure that no racist or eugenic research was included in this review.