Equity – the only thing that matters in rebuilding a failed healthcare system

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Equity – the only thing that matters in rebuilding a failed healthcare system

Bryn Jones

Bryn Jones
Bryn Jones is a Kahungunu GP with expertise in health policy, Māori health and action to achieve health equity

Bryn Jones is intolerant of a health system that continues to fail those with the least agency and autonomy. It’s long past time health services made health equity for Māori the primary goal, he writes

Inequity and unsustainable costs are inextricably linked; both are driven by a reluctance to invest in the early years, and reckless spending on low-v
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Chin MH, King PT, Jones RG, et al. Lessons for achieving health equity comparing Aotearoa/New Zealand and the United States. Health Policy 2018; online 14 May. https://bit.ly/2IWF8YJ