Source: Health Quality and Safety Commission
A new report paints a stark picture of the health care challenges faced by Pasifika in New Zealand and calls for ambitious changes to the system to be made urgently.
Bula Sautu: A window on quality 2021: Pacific health in the year of COVID-19 was launched in Parliament by Minister for Pacific Peoples Hon Aupito William Sio and is the latest in a series of ‘window’ publications from the Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission). It considers the health of Pacific peoples and provides a snapshot view of how the health system is working (or not working) for them.
Monday, 5 July 2021, 6:08 pm
A new report paints a stark picture of the health care
challenges faced by Pacific peoples in New Zealand and calls
for ambitious changes to the system to be made
urgently.
Bula Sautu: A window on quality 2021:
Pacific health in the year of COVID-19 was launched today in
Parliament by Minister for Pacific Peoples Hon Aupito
William Sio. The report is the latest in a series of
‘window’ publications from the Health Quality &
Safety Commission (the Commission). It considers the health
of Pacific peoples and provides a snapshot view of how the
health system is working (or not working) for
It also profiled health providers, communities and individuals. Pacific health expert Dr Collin Tukuitonga said for years, Pacific people had been denied their right to health and wellbeing, despite clear evidence that inequalities exist in almost all health conditions reported.
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Pacific health expert Dr Collin Tukuitonga says Pacific people have had to navigate a health system that is not designed with, or for, them. Some of the report’s findings showed Pacific people live six years fewer than non-Māori and non-Pacific people on average, and less than half of Pacific pregnant women are registered with a lead maternity carer, compared to 81 per cent of other ethnicities.
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