In 2006–2007, Metcalfe et al. estimated that Māori are missing out on nearly a million prescription items per year.
Māori health advocates are leading a bid to the Waitangi Tribunal to stop government plans to disestablish Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority.
With the new government pledging to scrap the Māori Health Authority, board member Dr Mataroria Lyndon tells Ronan Payinda that while the exact path forward may not yet be known, there’s no stopping the fight for Māori health equity.
The new coalition government has pledged to dismantle Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority.
The Ministry of Health’s Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti) Framework provides an updated expression of the Crown’s Te Tiriti obligations in the context of the health and disability system.
New Zealand’s older Indigenous people (Māori) are underserved and underrepresented as consumers of aged residential care services (ARC).
A new study has found that health inequities between Māori and non-Māori adults cost more than $860 million a year.
As part of the health system transformation a range of strategies have been developed to help guide our health system to achieve pae ora, healthy futures.
Plans have been unveiled by the government to shift health spending from fixing problems to preventing them.
Friday July 1, 2022 was the day when Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act came into effect and Te Aka Whai Ora – the Māori Health Authority – became a real thing.
HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS
EQUITY
Exploring the impacts of the health system on minorities within the population, notably including Māori, Pacifica, Asians and LGBTQI.
DRUGS, DEVICE AND DIAGNOSTICS
PUBLIC HEALTH
DIGITAL HEALTH
TE TIRITI