The Waitangi Tribunal has been told the health system is failing Māori with one woman detailing how her son has been let down multiple times.
Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority, was set up in 2022 but the government scrapped it last year and the Tribunal is scrutinising the decision as well as asking what the plan is now for improving Māori health.
The second part of the Tribunal’s inquiry into the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora has been running since the start of the week.
Levesque et al.’s widely-cited five dimensional model of access to healthcare has been used in a variety of contexts, including access to medicines.
The objective of the study is to conduct a systematic review and methodological quality appraisal on studies reporting the development of health and wellbeing outcome measures for Māori (Indigenous people of New Zealand), identify common features and processes, and critically appraise the measures using the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN).
Prominent medical bodies are calling on the government to allow the release of updated gender affirming healthcare guidelines after a small section on puberty blockers caused it to be delayed.
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
