Māori Health Publications

Te Kete Hauora Maori Health Directorate
Māori health publications from 1997 to the present.

Health Research Council publications

Te Puni Kokiri publishes fact sheets on areas like health, employment and education.

Māori Health Review
A monthly review of studies relevant to Māori Health, supported by the Ministry of Health and edited by Dr Matire Harwood.

 

Research

Issues in monitoring Māori health and ethnic disparities (2009)
This publication is the first in a planned series of topic-based discussion papers considering ethnicity data issues. It discusses technical and practical issues that relate to the monitoring of Māori health and ethnic inequalities in health over time.

Māori experience of care: He ritenga whakaaro (2009)
Mauri Ora Associates. Wellington: Ministry of Health

Future of Rongoā Māori: Wellbeing and Sustainability (2009)
This research aims to examine the contribution of rongoā Māori to indigenous wellbeing, and to identify issues for the ongoing sustainability of traditional Māori healing in New Zealand.

He Tipu Harakeke: Recruitment of Māori in the Health and Disability Workforce (2008)
This report summarises factors that facilitate and hinder the recruitment of Māori in the health workforce. The report also contains career profiles of Māori working in the health sector or studying towards a health related qualification to showcase potential career pathways for those wishing to enter a health profession.

Hauora Māori Standards of Health IV: a study of the years 2000-2005 (2007)
The first three chapters situate the health statistics within the broader context, including the theoretical, demographic and socioeconomic contexts. This is followed by chapters on mortality, public hospitalisations, cancer and mental health.

This volume of Hauora also includes a number of topic-based chapters from invited authors, including chapters on cardiovascular disease; diabetes; respiratory disease; oral health; disability; sleep problems; occupational safety and health; health in prisons; and the National Primary Medical Care Survey.

Tatau Kahukura: Māori Health Chart Book (2006)
This report provides a picture of the health status of the Māori population compared to non-Māori. With the Māori population expected to grow by 20% between 2006 - 2021, Tatau Kahukura is an information tool for the health and disability sector, researchers, policymakers, funders – in fact anyone for whom reducing inequalities is a key goal.

Tauiwi general practitioners’ talk about Maori health: interpretative repertoires (2002)
This paper reports findings from a qualitative research project investigating how Tauiwi (non-Maori) general practitioners talk about Maori health.

 

Books

These books provide a good insight into the history of Māori health:

Whaiora - Māori Health Development
Mason Durie
Oxford University Press

The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand
Edited by Keith SinclairOxford University Press

Other good reading:

Ngā Kāhui Pou - Launching Maori Futures
Mason Durie
Huia Publishers

 

Articles

Being Maori by John Broughton Discusses the questions: ‘What is Maori?’, ‘What does the word Maori mean?’, ‘Who is Maori?’, ’What does "being Maori" mean?’ New Zealand Medical Journal 106(968):506-8, 1993. Last updated on: 4 Sep 2009 || File size: 346 Kb || Acrobat Reader Required.

Cultural Sensitivity and the GP by David Tipene-Leach Covers Maori community health, doctor-patient communication, Maori Medicine, Mate Maori, Death and Dying, Postmortems. Patient Management September 1994 Reproduced with thanks to ADIS. Last updated on: 4 Sep 2009 || File size: 366 Kb || Acrobat Reader Required.

Maori Attitudes to Sickness, Doctors and Hospitals by Mason Durie Interaction of Maori with hospitals, Tapu, Hara, role of the tohunga, involvement of family. New Zealand Medical Journal Nov. 23, 1977. 86(600): pgs. 483-485 Last updated on: 4 Sep 2009 || File size: 284 Kb || Acrobat Reader Required.