{"id":31243,"date":"2021-04-22T12:13:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T03:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/22\/the-creation-of-a-maori-health-authority-is-good-news-but-the-devil-will-be-in-the-details"},"modified":"2021-04-22T12:13:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T03:13:56","slug":"the-creation-of-a-maori-health-authority-is-good-news-but-the-devil-will-be-in-the-details-gabrielle-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31243","title":{"rendered":"The creation of a M\u0101ori health authority is good news \u2013 but the devil will be in the details | Gabrielle Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The critical questions of who is really in charge and who has the money still need to be answered<\/p>\n<p>After decades of neglect, inequality, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzma.org.nz\/journal-articles\/racism-and-health-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-a-systematic-review-of-quantitative-studies\">outright racism in New Zealand\u2019s health system<\/a>, a shift toward indigenous sovereignty and tino rangatiratanga in healthcare is long overdue. The M\u0101ori Health Authority that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/new-zealand-announces-radical-shakeup-of-health-system-district-health-board-dhb\">government announced this week<\/a> seems like a step in the right direction. But the devil will be in the details, as we wait to see if this will produce true change, or just more window dressing.<\/p>\n<p>The failure of the health and disability system to serve M\u0101ori has been apparent for decades. A visit to the Ministry of Health website will yield report after report documenting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.govt.nz\/our-work\/populations\/maori-health\/tatau-kahukura-maori-health-statistics\/nga-mana-hauora-tutohu-health-status-indicators\/life-expectancy\">seven-year life expectancy gap between M\u0101ori and non-M\u0101ori<\/a>, higher rates of cancer and other preventable illness, worse outcomes in care, and a myriad of other inequities. Being able to describe M\u0101ori health inequities is necessary. But ultimately, it\u2019s insufficient.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/22\/the-creation-of-a-maori-health-authority-is-good-news-but-the-devil-will-be-in-the-details\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The critical questions of who is really in charge and who has the money still need to be answeredAfter decades of neglect, inequality, and outright racism in New Zealand\u2019s health system, a shift toward indigenous sovereignty and tino rangatiratanga in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31244,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31243\/revisions\/31244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}