Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 20, 2023 5:15:05 GMT 12
Peter Williams: MAORI HEALTH IMPROVING FASTER THAN NON-MAORI.
The life expectancy for a Maori male increased from 66.6 in 1996 to 73.4 in 2018, which is the most recent year for which numbers are available. That’s an extra 6.8 years of life, an improvement of just over 10 percent.
In the same time non-Maori men have increased their life expectancy from 75.4 in 1996 to 80.9 in 2018. That’s just over 7 percent.
So the increase in life expectancy is faster for Maori than for non-Maori.
For women the numbers tell a similar story. The life expectancy for a Maori woman increased 6 years or over 8 percent between 1996 and 2018.
For non-Maori women the rate of increase was 4.7 percent or just under 4 years.
Now let’s consider the country’s death rates. As I reported yesterday the general population is dying at the fastest rate in a quarter of a century. In the year to June 30 this year we died at a rate of 7.43 per 1000 of population.
But the Maori death rate was much lower at 5.35.
Five years ago the numbers were 6.91 for the population as a whole but only 4.9 for Maori and all the way back to a decade ago, the 2013 figures were 6.78 and 4.18.
So I don’t get this. We are told that we need at great expense a separate Māori Health Authority to improve Maori health outcomes.
Yet we have Maori life expectancy increasing at a faster rate than non-Maori, and Maori dying at much slower rate than the population at large......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/08/peter-williams-maori-health-improving.html
The life expectancy for a Maori male increased from 66.6 in 1996 to 73.4 in 2018, which is the most recent year for which numbers are available. That’s an extra 6.8 years of life, an improvement of just over 10 percent.
In the same time non-Maori men have increased their life expectancy from 75.4 in 1996 to 80.9 in 2018. That’s just over 7 percent.
So the increase in life expectancy is faster for Maori than for non-Maori.
For women the numbers tell a similar story. The life expectancy for a Maori woman increased 6 years or over 8 percent between 1996 and 2018.
For non-Maori women the rate of increase was 4.7 percent or just under 4 years.
Now let’s consider the country’s death rates. As I reported yesterday the general population is dying at the fastest rate in a quarter of a century. In the year to June 30 this year we died at a rate of 7.43 per 1000 of population.
But the Maori death rate was much lower at 5.35.
Five years ago the numbers were 6.91 for the population as a whole but only 4.9 for Maori and all the way back to a decade ago, the 2013 figures were 6.78 and 4.18.
So I don’t get this. We are told that we need at great expense a separate Māori Health Authority to improve Maori health outcomes.
Yet we have Maori life expectancy increasing at a faster rate than non-Maori, and Maori dying at much slower rate than the population at large......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/08/peter-williams-maori-health-improving.html