Abstract Although New Zealanders have historically prided ourselves on being a country
where everyone has a 'fair go', the systemic and longstanding existence of health inequities …

New Zealand's School Dental Service (SDS) was founded in 1921, partly as a response to
the “appalling” state of children's teeth, but also at a time when social policy became …

Abstract Public institutions within New Zealand have long been accused of mono-culturalism
and institutional racism. This study sought to identify inconsistencies and bias by comparing …

Aims and objectives. To explore Māori (Indigenous people of New Zealand) experiences of
hospitalisation in surgical or medical settings and how these might influence length of stay …

Background New Zealand's health system has long been seen as providing highly
fragmented, poorly co-ordinated services to service users. A continuing policy challenge has …

Institutional racism, a pattern of differential access to material resources and power
determined by race, advantages one sector of the population while disadvantaging another …

Over the past 25 years, New Zealand has had significant experience with two very different
approaches to commissioning health and disability support services. The first is the …

Methods Critical Tiriti Analysis (CTA) 11 is a methodology to ascertain policy alignment with
Te Tiriti. Specifically, CTA examines engagement with the preamble, the three written …

The election of a centre-right government in 2008 has spawned a series of ongoing reforms
to the structures for governing New Zealand's health system. These mainly involve creation …

Introduction While considerable attention has been given to improving health workforce
planning practice, few articles focus on the relationship between health workforce …