Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 27, 2016 16:20:51 GMT 12
HIGH RATES OF SMOKING AMONGST MAORI IN CANTERBURY
Rates for smoking have come down across all ethnicities since 2006 but remain much higher among Maori.
In 2006-7 nearly half of all adult Maori (46.6 per cent) were smoking daily. This has fallen to 30.7 per cent. Amongst non-Maori in Canterbury smoking rates have fallen from 16.6 per cent to 13.1 per cent.
Three quit programmes designed for Maori, Pacific and pregnant women received $2.6 million in funding over three years but were terminated and replaced by a new single service, Te Ha Waitaha this year.
Funding of $2.57m has been allocated for the new contract awarded to Canterbury Clinical Network, Ministry of Health director of service commissioning Jill Lane said.
The disproportionately high smoking rates among Maori can be partly explained by history, director of Maori health service He Waka Tapu, Dallas Hibbs says.
"...people who are oppressed and stripped of their cultural norms have less capability to deal with the ordinary circumstances of life, they just do.
"We use drugs and alcohol more than the most other population groups to medicate our own lives, we're not the benefactors of colonisation ordinarily so we don't share in the greatest wealth."....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/87751403/High-rates-of-smoking-amongst-Maori-in-Canterbury
Rates for smoking have come down across all ethnicities since 2006 but remain much higher among Maori.
In 2006-7 nearly half of all adult Maori (46.6 per cent) were smoking daily. This has fallen to 30.7 per cent. Amongst non-Maori in Canterbury smoking rates have fallen from 16.6 per cent to 13.1 per cent.
Three quit programmes designed for Maori, Pacific and pregnant women received $2.6 million in funding over three years but were terminated and replaced by a new single service, Te Ha Waitaha this year.
Funding of $2.57m has been allocated for the new contract awarded to Canterbury Clinical Network, Ministry of Health director of service commissioning Jill Lane said.
The disproportionately high smoking rates among Maori can be partly explained by history, director of Maori health service He Waka Tapu, Dallas Hibbs says.
"...people who are oppressed and stripped of their cultural norms have less capability to deal with the ordinary circumstances of life, they just do.
"We use drugs and alcohol more than the most other population groups to medicate our own lives, we're not the benefactors of colonisation ordinarily so we don't share in the greatest wealth."....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/87751403/High-rates-of-smoking-amongst-Maori-in-Canterbury