Step up to partnership before deciding how the disability part of the health reforms will look

Website intended for a NZ health professional readership

+Print Archive

Etcetera

Step up to partnership before deciding how the disability part of the health reforms will look

12 May 2021

Gabrielle Baker

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 12:40 AM

Disabled signage_Nguyen Minh on Unsplash

A health system aimed at being pro-equity must grapple with, and eliminate, its ableism, and guarantee self-determination for tāngata whaikaha

COMMENT

Partnership with Māori is especially important where tāngata whaikaha (Māori with lived experience of disability) are concerned, writes health policy consultant Gabrielle Baker

Tāngata whaikaha are uniquely under-served by our current health system. Intersectionality helps give context So much has happened in the health

Health Policy

References

Jones B, King PT, Baker G et al. COVID-19, intersectionality, and health equity for indigenous peoples with lived experience of disability. Am Indian Cult Res J 2020;44,2: 7187.

Print Archive

How to Treat

+How to treat

Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 12:45 AM