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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.
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Media release from Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington +Undoctored
Friday 30 April 2021, 04:34 PM
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A Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington researcher is calling for more funding and better use of advanced practitioners to reduce pressures on Aotearoa New Zealand’s primary health care system.
Dr Tara Officer, a postdoctoral research fellow in Te Hikuwai Rangahau Hauora Health Services Research Centre in the University’s Te Wāhanga Tātai Hauora Faculty of Health, says advanced practitioners, such as nurse practitioners and pharmacist prescribers, remain underused in New Zealand despite growing use in countries such as the United Kingdom and Canada.