Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 28, 2023 5:23:43 GMT 12
MĀORI HEALTH SHOULD NOT BE A POLITICAL FOOTBALL
We maintain that our health inequities are a product of colonisation and its associated traumas, which, when coupled with lower socio-economic status and institutional racism, mean Māori are worse off on almost all health and social markers than non-Māori.
While we are thrilled at these radical health reforms that seek to disrupt and rebuild a system to improve health outcomes, we are set up to fail unless the other parts of the whole environment - the socio-economic, judicial, and educational systems which feed into it are also addressed.....
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2309/S00239/maori-health-should-not-be-a-political-football-hapai-te-hauora-e-tipu-e-rea-whanau-services.htm
JOINT MĀORI APPROACH TO HEALTH AND WELLBEING IN HOROWHENUA LAUNCHED
Local iwi and health providers have recently formed the Horowhenua Takiwā Alliance. Its first public activity will be a health and wellbeing expo, called ”Whakarongo Mai”, which celebrates community voices and aspirations, to be held on October 4-7, at Te Takeretanga o Kura-hau-pō, Taitoko/Levin.
The alliance wants to gather all local expertise and create a consistent voice on health needs within the Horowhenua community.
“The Kaupapa of Horowhenua Hauora Alliance is grounded in an iwi provider-led approach that recognises mana whenua status. Grounded in the tikanga and kawa of iwi leadership, is the fundamental practice of manaakitanga, requiring a whole-of-community perspective in health and iwi leadership and engagement with Te Pae Oranga o Ruahine o Tararua (IMPB) wellbeing for the takiwā.”....
www.nzherald.co.nz/horowhenua-chronicle/news/joint-maori-approach-to-health-and-wellbeing-in-horowhenua-launched/GW4L3CI7RVC55LI35L376Y262A/
KAHU TAURIMA CONTRACTS TO IMPROVE MATERNITY AND EARLY YEARS SERVICES CONFIRMED
Contracts have been issued to 40 community-based hauora Māori partners as part of the Kahu Taurima programme to deliver Te Ao Māori Models of Care and other initiatives that will improve maternity and early years services for māma, pēpi and whānau.
In July, the Government announced $74 million of funding over the next two years for Kahu Taurima
As part of this funding, hauora Māori partners across the country will develop Te Ao Māori Models of Care for maternity,.....
www.teakawhaiora.nz/news/kahu-taurima-contracts-to-improve-maternity-and-early-years-services-confirmed/
We maintain that our health inequities are a product of colonisation and its associated traumas, which, when coupled with lower socio-economic status and institutional racism, mean Māori are worse off on almost all health and social markers than non-Māori.
While we are thrilled at these radical health reforms that seek to disrupt and rebuild a system to improve health outcomes, we are set up to fail unless the other parts of the whole environment - the socio-economic, judicial, and educational systems which feed into it are also addressed.....
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2309/S00239/maori-health-should-not-be-a-political-football-hapai-te-hauora-e-tipu-e-rea-whanau-services.htm
JOINT MĀORI APPROACH TO HEALTH AND WELLBEING IN HOROWHENUA LAUNCHED
Local iwi and health providers have recently formed the Horowhenua Takiwā Alliance. Its first public activity will be a health and wellbeing expo, called ”Whakarongo Mai”, which celebrates community voices and aspirations, to be held on October 4-7, at Te Takeretanga o Kura-hau-pō, Taitoko/Levin.
The alliance wants to gather all local expertise and create a consistent voice on health needs within the Horowhenua community.
“The Kaupapa of Horowhenua Hauora Alliance is grounded in an iwi provider-led approach that recognises mana whenua status. Grounded in the tikanga and kawa of iwi leadership, is the fundamental practice of manaakitanga, requiring a whole-of-community perspective in health and iwi leadership and engagement with Te Pae Oranga o Ruahine o Tararua (IMPB) wellbeing for the takiwā.”....
www.nzherald.co.nz/horowhenua-chronicle/news/joint-maori-approach-to-health-and-wellbeing-in-horowhenua-launched/GW4L3CI7RVC55LI35L376Y262A/
KAHU TAURIMA CONTRACTS TO IMPROVE MATERNITY AND EARLY YEARS SERVICES CONFIRMED
Contracts have been issued to 40 community-based hauora Māori partners as part of the Kahu Taurima programme to deliver Te Ao Māori Models of Care and other initiatives that will improve maternity and early years services for māma, pēpi and whānau.
In July, the Government announced $74 million of funding over the next two years for Kahu Taurima
As part of this funding, hauora Māori partners across the country will develop Te Ao Māori Models of Care for maternity,.....
www.teakawhaiora.nz/news/kahu-taurima-contracts-to-improve-maternity-and-early-years-services-confirmed/