Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 8, 2017 18:11:17 GMT 12
‘ATTACKING PEOPLE’S WELLBEING NOT THE WAY TO HELP THEM TOWARDS HEALTHIER LIFESTYLES’
Political lobbying and persuasion have replaced community development in public health, and the holistic Maori view of health is not being taken into account, Massey University associate professor Marewa Glover says.
Marginalising someone is not going to support their mauri (life force), she says. She points to a view espoused by Maori health leader Sir Mason Durie, of the need to assess strategies for whether they will support Maori to flourish or languish, and whether they will improve the social determinants of health.
Writing in the editorial of the New Zealand Medical Journal today, she says this simultaneously accepts the universality of Western perspectives and marginalises Maori ways of knowing, and is a form of institutional racism.
Strengthening Maori health is critical to honouring te Tiriti o Waitangi and addressing health inequities.
Disestablishing Te Kete Hauora – the Maori policy team within the Ministry – appears to have compromised the ability of Ministry of Health to fulfil its treaty obligations.
In the absence of health equity, structural mechanisms are needed to ensure Maori input and treaty obligations are met.
To address health inequities, we need Maori-led solutions and a health bureaucracy
responsive to its treaty obligations.....
www.nzdoctor.co.nz/news/2017/july-2017/07/%E2%80%98attacking-people%E2%80%99s-wellbeing-not-the-way-to-help-them-towards-healthier-lifestyles%E2%80%99.aspx
Political lobbying and persuasion have replaced community development in public health, and the holistic Maori view of health is not being taken into account, Massey University associate professor Marewa Glover says.
Marginalising someone is not going to support their mauri (life force), she says. She points to a view espoused by Maori health leader Sir Mason Durie, of the need to assess strategies for whether they will support Maori to flourish or languish, and whether they will improve the social determinants of health.
Writing in the editorial of the New Zealand Medical Journal today, she says this simultaneously accepts the universality of Western perspectives and marginalises Maori ways of knowing, and is a form of institutional racism.
Strengthening Maori health is critical to honouring te Tiriti o Waitangi and addressing health inequities.
Disestablishing Te Kete Hauora – the Maori policy team within the Ministry – appears to have compromised the ability of Ministry of Health to fulfil its treaty obligations.
In the absence of health equity, structural mechanisms are needed to ensure Maori input and treaty obligations are met.
To address health inequities, we need Maori-led solutions and a health bureaucracy
responsive to its treaty obligations.....
www.nzdoctor.co.nz/news/2017/july-2017/07/%E2%80%98attacking-people%E2%80%99s-wellbeing-not-the-way-to-help-them-towards-healthier-lifestyles%E2%80%99.aspx