Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 10, 2017 18:06:28 GMT 12
NEXT STEP IN ENCOURAGING MAORI DOCTORS: DHBS WHERE THEY CAN FLOURISH
The next stage for helping to grow the Maori health workforce is to make sure DHBs are places they can flourish, the doctor leading the University of Otago’s Maori student support programme says.
Associate dean (Maori) and director of Kohatu, Otago Medical School’s centre for hauora Maori, Joanne Baxter says changing the health workforce is her aim, with a view to tackling health inequity.
Speaking at this year’s RNZCGP conference in Dunedin, Dr Baxter said only two to four per cent of New Zealand’s current registered health professionals are Maori.
Almost a third of all babies born in New Zealand are Maori, she says......
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The next stage for helping to grow the Maori health workforce is to make sure DHBs are places they can flourish, the doctor leading the University of Otago’s Maori student support programme says.
Associate dean (Maori) and director of Kohatu, Otago Medical School’s centre for hauora Maori, Joanne Baxter says changing the health workforce is her aim, with a view to tackling health inequity.
Speaking at this year’s RNZCGP conference in Dunedin, Dr Baxter said only two to four per cent of New Zealand’s current registered health professionals are Maori.
Almost a third of all babies born in New Zealand are Maori, she says......
m.nzdoctor.co.nz/news-detail.aspx?n=84760