Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 22, 2023 8:52:04 GMT 12
John Robinson: HIPKINS IS WRONG WHEN HE CLAIMS DISCRIMINATION BY MEDICAL WORKERS.
That lower life expectancy is frequently referred to when claiming unequal treatment. For example, in 2005 United Nations Special Rapporteur (Rodolfo Stavenhagen) visited New Zealand for ten days, and said that Maori life expectancy “is significantly lower (almost 10 years) than that of non-Maori” – before proceeding to tell a sovereign nation how to run its affairs, and to instruct the Government to change its policy (such as that: “The Treaty of Waitangi should be entrenched constitutionally. Iwi and hapu should be considered as likely units for strengthening the customary self-governance of Maori. The Waitangi Tribunal should be granted legally binding and enforceable powers. The Foreshore and Seabed Act should be repealed or amended. Social delivery services, particularly health and housing, should continue to be specifically targeted and tailored to the needs of Maori.”)[3]
Such biased and simple-minded thinking refuses to consider the whole picture. Data for one point in time tells nothing about the trend or why a difference might occur. Consider the following graph that follows differences between Maori life expectancy, for men and women, over nine recent decades.[4]
The trend from the late 1940s through the 1960s and 1970s is similar to that of many other social statistics. The move into the cities brought many Maori closer to developed health services, and their general health, including life expectancy, improved, with a steady reduction of the gap between Maori and non-Maori rates. It is evident that if that trend had continued, the gap could have disappeared around 2000.
But in a period after 1984 changes in Government policy brought a considerable increase in inequalities, a widening of class differences and even the creation of a new underclass. Working class Maori, in the freezing works, on the wharves, in small factories and in similar manual jobs, were hard hit. The struggles of those whose employment came to a sudden end led to worsening living conditions and poorer health, bringing the resulting pause in the previously increasing life expectancy and indeed an increased difference between Maori and others.
The message from this data is clear. The continuing ethnic gap, and the end to the previous convergence, is a consequence of political and economic policy, and has nothing to do with supposed discrimination against Maori by health professionals......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/06/john-robinson-hipkins-is-wrong-when-he.html
That lower life expectancy is frequently referred to when claiming unequal treatment. For example, in 2005 United Nations Special Rapporteur (Rodolfo Stavenhagen) visited New Zealand for ten days, and said that Maori life expectancy “is significantly lower (almost 10 years) than that of non-Maori” – before proceeding to tell a sovereign nation how to run its affairs, and to instruct the Government to change its policy (such as that: “The Treaty of Waitangi should be entrenched constitutionally. Iwi and hapu should be considered as likely units for strengthening the customary self-governance of Maori. The Waitangi Tribunal should be granted legally binding and enforceable powers. The Foreshore and Seabed Act should be repealed or amended. Social delivery services, particularly health and housing, should continue to be specifically targeted and tailored to the needs of Maori.”)[3]
Such biased and simple-minded thinking refuses to consider the whole picture. Data for one point in time tells nothing about the trend or why a difference might occur. Consider the following graph that follows differences between Maori life expectancy, for men and women, over nine recent decades.[4]
The trend from the late 1940s through the 1960s and 1970s is similar to that of many other social statistics. The move into the cities brought many Maori closer to developed health services, and their general health, including life expectancy, improved, with a steady reduction of the gap between Maori and non-Maori rates. It is evident that if that trend had continued, the gap could have disappeared around 2000.
But in a period after 1984 changes in Government policy brought a considerable increase in inequalities, a widening of class differences and even the creation of a new underclass. Working class Maori, in the freezing works, on the wharves, in small factories and in similar manual jobs, were hard hit. The struggles of those whose employment came to a sudden end led to worsening living conditions and poorer health, bringing the resulting pause in the previously increasing life expectancy and indeed an increased difference between Maori and others.
The message from this data is clear. The continuing ethnic gap, and the end to the previous convergence, is a consequence of political and economic policy, and has nothing to do with supposed discrimination against Maori by health professionals......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/06/john-robinson-hipkins-is-wrong-when-he.html