Surviving lung cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand could depend on whether you can access a GP – raising questions about equity in the country’s health system.
Public health physicians have labelled a recent Government directive that public services be prioritised on need rather than ethnicity as “an affront to scientific and public health knowledge”.
The Iwi-Māori Partnership Board representing iwi from Taumarunui to Whanganui has appointed its first manu taiko/chief executive as it powers up for new responsibilities in the health sector.
Māori health leaders are calling on the government to scrap the Treaty Principles Bill, saying equitable healthcare is "a fundamental right".
The abolition of Te Aka Whai Ora has turned the dial backwards on whether the country can achieve cancer survival equity, as formally planned, within six years from now, a conference has been told.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is defending his approach to addressing issues within New Zealand’s health system as he expresses his sadness over the death of a woman in Rotorua Hospital’s emergency department.
The prime minister is accusing Hawke's Bay health professionals of being "out of line" for prioritising young Māori and Pasifika.
Young Māori and Pasifika in Hawke’s Bay are no longer eligible on the basis of their ethnicity to receive some free healthcare services after the Health Minister intervened and demanded the policy be changed.
New Zealand's ongoing housing crisis is fuelling high rates of rheumatic fever among Māori and Pacific peoples, says epidemiologist Dr Jason Gurney.
Health NZ is unable to tell if spending millions to ramp up the health system to cope in winter has actually worked.
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