A landmark day for Māori health
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.
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.
It's difficult to beat an implication that Māori will get preferential treatment for kickstarting both an irrational and rational public scrap.
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) supports ethnicity being part of the algorithmically derived Equity Adjustor Score currently applied to decisions over surgical wait times in Auckland.
Opposition parties have been accused of trying to whip up racism over a tool which prioritises surgery waitlists based partly on ethnicity.
Two new nurse directors at Starship Child health will help address health inequity for Māori by championing Māori health and leading Te Tiriti across nursing, as the paediatric health provider ushers in a new nursing model.
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