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Monitoring how the health reforms and the performance of the health sector uphold Te Tiriti obligations and how they reflect, advance, and challenge the relationship between Tangata Whenua and the Crown.
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Media coverage
Bowel cancer free screening age lowered to 58, funding pulled from Māori programme
The government has announced plans to lower the age for free bowel cancer screening for all New Zealanders by "redirecting" money previously set aside to lower the age for Māori and Pacific people.
Hauora Taiwhenua Presents 10-Point Action Plan for Rural Māori Health
Hauora Taiwhenua has presented a 10-point action plan to Ministers following last week's pivotal Rural Māori Health Summit in Wellington. Co-hosted with our Te Tiriti partners, Te Rōpū Ārahi, the Summit brought together politicians, health officials and key stakeholders to address the urgent challenges in rural Māori healthcare.
Treaty Principles Bill: The speeches
Parliament's first reading debate for the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill was an electric affair, but with a few surprisingly lacklustre speeches.
Commentary
Ministry of Health Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024
The Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024 sets out who we are and what we do, how we manage our business, our financial statements and statement of service performance as specified in Vote Health – Main Estimates of Appropriation 2023/24 and (where updated) in Vote Health – Supplementary Estimates of Appropriation 2023/24.
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
Academic Literature
Hauora Māori – Māori health: a right to equal outcomes in primary care
Many Māori (44%) have unmet needs for primary care. Seven models of primary care were identified by the funders and the research team, including Māori-owned practices. We hypothesised patient health outcomes for Māori would differ between models of care.
Adapting an equity-focused implementation process framework with a focus on ethnic health inequities in the Aotearoa New Zealand context
The framework presented in this study is the frst equity-focused process-type implementation framework to be adapted for the Aotearoa NZ context. This framework is intended to support and facilitate equity-focused implementation research and health intervention implementation by mainstream health services.
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
A te Tiriti-based approach to developing a national survey on human rights
The framework for the baseline survey on human rights was developed in alignment with the four articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Funding to Māori Health Providers 2018/19 to 2022/23
This report shows information on funding to Māori health providers by the Ministry of Health, Te Whatu Ora and Te Aka whai Ora for the period 2018/19 to 2022/23. This report follows on from our reports in 2017, 2021 and 2022 on the same topic and is part of our monitoring of Whakamaua: Māori Health Action Plan 2020-2053.
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