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Exploring the impacts of the health system on minorities within the population, notably including Māori, Pacifica, Asians and LGBTQI; and how interventions, policy and the health system overall can contribute to such groups attaining an equitable health status.
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Media coverage
The challenge of delivering rural dental care
Recently, the offer of free dental treatment in the Whanganui/Ruapehu region attracted hundreds of people - and highlighted how difficult it is for people living in rural or remote communities to access care.
Alcohol-related suicides higher risk for Māori and Pacific women – study
Researchers are calling for more kaupapa Māori targeted public health interventions, after a study found Māori and Pacific women are disproportionately affected by suicide involving heavy alcohol use.
Tongan-led solutions needed to overcome barriers to bowel cancer screening
The National Bowel Screening Programme is failing to deliver screening equitably to Pacific New Zealanders, but there are ways to improve it, research led by the University of Otago, Wellington has found.
Commentary
Strategic Intentions 2024–2028 Ko ngā Takune-ā-Rautaki 2024–2028
The document sets out the Ministry’s own strategic focus, functions and priorities aligned and contributing to, but distinct from those of the Government.
Healthcare based on need trickier than you think Mr Luxon
When prime minister Christopher Luxon criticised doctors for prioritising young Māori and Pasifika patients, he called it a matter of need, not ethnicity. But if healthcare isn’t based on ethnicity, how will we truly capture those with the highest need, ponders Lucy O’Hagan
‘An attack on science and good medical practice’
The coalition government has launched “an attack on science and good medical practice” by directing agencies to downplay ethnicity as a marker of need, say a group of health professionals.
Academic Literature
Selective under-representation of Pacifc peoples in population estimates for health indicator measurements in Aotearoa New Zealand misinforms policy making
Pacifc people are systematically undercounted, but the impact on health statistics is not well studied.
He Aroka Urutā. Rural health provider perspectives of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in rural Aotearoa New Zealand with a focus on Māori and Pasifika communities: a qualitative study
Findings provide a platform on which to build further research regarding models of rural health care to ensure services are designed for rural NZ contexts and capable of meeting the needs of diverse rural communities.
Inequities in medicines use are probably much worse than we thought
In 2006–2007, Metcalfe et al. estimated that Māori are missing out on nearly a million prescription items per year.
Legislation and Parliament
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Reports and Government Documents
Te Pūrongo mō te Hauora me te Tū Motuhake 2023 | Health and Independence Report 2023
There are four main sections in the report: People of Aotearoa New Zealand, Health measures, Causes of health loss and Determinants of health and wellbeing.
Evaluation of two tools used for waitlist prioritisation for planned care in Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
This is a report on the evaluation of two separate tools used in the process of waitlist prioritisation in Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora.
Government Policy Statement on Health 2024–2027
The Government Policy Statement on Health 2024-27 is the public statement of what Government expects the health system to deliver and achieve, and how success will be measured, monitored, and reported.
Key issues
HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS
EQUITY
DRUGS, DEVICE AND DIAGNOSTICS
PUBLIC HEALTH
DIGITAL HEALTH
TE TIRITI