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Māori and Pacific children face more barriers to seeing a GP than other children and those who do are twice as likely to be hospitalised.
That’s the finding of a Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington study using data from the long-running Growing Up in New Zealand study.
It found 8.3 percent of Māori children and 7 percent of Pacific children experienced barriers to seeing a GP between the ages of 12 and 24 months, compared with 2.8 percent of Pākehā children.
Lead author Dr Mona Jeffreys says children who don’t see a GP at that early age are more than twice as likely to be admitted to hospital when they are about the age of 4.
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Māori and Pacific children face more barriers to seeing a GP than other children and those who do are twice as likely to be hospitalised, according to a new report led by a Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington researcher.
The Prevalence and Consequences of Barriers to seeing a GP report, funded by the Ministry of Social Development’s Children and Families Research Fund, found 8.3 percent of Māori children and 7 percent of Pacific children experienced barriers to seeing a GP between the ages of 12 and 24 months, compared with 2.8 percent of New Zealand European children.
This rose to 9 percent for Māori children and 9.1 percent for Pacific children between the ages of 42 and 54 months, compared with 3.2 percent for New Zealand European children.