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Open AccessHauora Māori – Māori health: a right to equal outcomes in primary care
For more than a century, Māori have experienced poorer health than non-Māori. In 2019 an independent Tribunal found the Government had breached Te Tiriti o Waitangi by “failing to design and administer the cur...
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Open AccessUse of the CONSIDER statement by eye health researchers when conducting and reporting research involving Indigenous peoples: an online survey
Indigenous peoples experience worse eye health compared to non-Indigenous peoples. Service providers and researchers must avoid perpetuating this inequity. To help achieve this, researchers can use the CONSolIDat...
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Open AccessImproving social justice in observational studies: protocol for the development of a global and Indigenous STROBE-equity reporting guideline
Addressing persistent and pervasive health inequities is a global moral imperative, which has been highlighted and magnified by the societal and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Observational studies c...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the workforce that supports Māori and Pacific peoples with type 2 diabetes to achieve better health outcomes
Prevalence of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is high among Māori and other Pacific Island peoples in New Zealand. Current health services to address T2DM largely take place in primary healthcare settings and ...
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Open AccessCardiovascular disease and its management among Pacific people: a systematic review by ethnicity and place of birth
Pacific people experience a disproportionate burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD), whether they remain in their country of origin or migrate to higher-income countries, such as Australia, Aotearoa New Zealan...
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Open AccessRisk of major bleeding by ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation among 488,107 people in primary care: a cohort study
Antithrombotic medications (antiplatelets and anticoagulants) reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), but with the disadvantage of increasing bleeding risk. Ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation are...
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Ethnic Disparities in Access to Publicly Funded Bariatric Surgery in South Auckland, New Zealand
In New Zealand (NZ), Indigenous Māori and Pacific peoples experience a higher burden of obesity and obesity-related disease. Counties Manukau Health (CMH) provides the largest public bariatric service in NZ ho...
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Open AccessUnderstanding group A streptococcal pharyngitis and skin infections as causes of rheumatic fever: protocol for a prospective disease incidence study
Group A Streptococcal (GAS) infections cause the autoimmune disease acute rheumatic fever (ARF), which can progress to chronic rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Treating pharyngitis caused by GAS with antibiotics...
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Open AccessThe experience of gestational diabetes for indigenous Māori women living in rural New Zealand: qualitative research informing the development of decolonising interventions
Although early detection and management of excess rates of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) among Indigenous women can substantially reduce maternal and offspring complications, current interventions seem i...
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Open AccessCardiovascular disease medication health literacy among Indigenous peoples: design and protocol of an intervention trial in Indigenous primary care services
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are leading causes of mortality and morbidity among Indigenous people in New Zealand, Australia and Canada and are a major driver of the inequities in life expectancy between Indi...
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Open AccessRecruiting equal numbers of indigenous and non-indigenous participants to a ‘polypill’ randomized trial
Māori are disproportionately affected by cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is the main reason for the eight year difference in life expectancy between Māori and non-Māori. The primary care-based IMPACT (IMPr...
