Prioritizing indigenous health equity in health registers: an environmental scan of strategies for equitable ascertainment and quality data

Table 2 Summary table of themes from survey respondents’ perceived barriers to ascertain Indigenous peoples, and strategies to ascertain and support data quality of Indigenous peoples. Blank cells indicate no reported barriers/strategies

Theme	Perceived barriers	Ascertainment strategies	Data quality strategies
Collaboration		Involving IP	Involving IP
		• As advisors	• Indigenous advisory group
Systems	Ethnicity data quality		Ethnicity data systems and processes
	• Incomplete		• Standard ethnicity data protocol
	• Inaccurate		• Data linkage
	• Misclassified		• Indigenous status validation checks
	• Not collected
Health provider/service	Insufficient information about register	Finding people	Reporting
		• Establishing access to rural/remote locations	• Audit
	Rurality of IP^#	• Family friendly approach	Activities specific to Indigenous data quality
	Indigenous health equity not prioritised	Centering equity	• Indigenous-specific research
		• Equity groups	• Quality improvement initiatives for IP
		• Equity-focused meetings	• Multiple data collections
			Post data collection processes
			• Quality assurance
Work force	Workforce capacity	Workforce capacity
	Lack of IP	Region-based coordinator^ (also Finding People)
	Regional workforce shortage

IP = Indigenous peoples
^#“Rurality of IP” refers to respondent perceptions that Indigenous peoples are predominantly a “rural population base”
^“Region-based coordinator” refers to placing “a coordinator in [a specific] region recognising a large number of [Indigenous] families with [the health condition] were located there”

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