New Zealand Health and Disability System Review: Repositioning health and disability for the future
Description The recommendations made in New Zealand’s Health and Disability system review represent the biggest restructuring of the health system in a generation for Aotearoa New Zealand. The Health and Disability System Review proposes significant changes in terms of the overall system. This report should be read in conjunction with the Health and Disability System […]
Ministry of Health: NGO Health and Disability Network – Media Release
Description Māori NGOs give their perspective on proposed Health & Disability System changes repositioning Health & Disability Non-Government Organisations for the Future (A perspective for Māori NGOs) is a snapshot report by the NGO Council on behalf of the NGO Health and Disability Network. Inspired by the Health and Disability System Review, Waitangi Tribunal Health […]
The Future of Māori Health Forum
Description Sir Mason Durie: Key Note Speaker for The Future of Māori Health Forum, 30th November 2020 Grand Hall, Parliament Buildings Wellington. Download
Māori Suicide Prevention Research, Policy & Practice
Description This report includes the verbatim reports of the speakers, symposium participants and those working in Māori suicide prevention and postvention. This report identifies key issues through the voices and words of Māori Treaty and social justice advocates, academics, service providers, policy writers, researchers and those on the receiving end of current suicide prevention and […]
Ka Whawhai Tonu Mātou Education Te Reo Assimilation 2
Description The mechanism of the Government’s agenda of assimilation and language domination was the State education system. This was, therefore, the primary cause of Māori language loss. Download Download
Te Rā o te Waka Hourua ||: Strategic Research Agenda for Māori and Pasifika Suicide Prevention
Description Te Rāo Te Waka Hourua || – The Second Strategic Research Agenda – provides a mechanism to: build the evidence base of what works for Māori whānau, hapū, iwi, Pasifika families and communities to prevent suicide, through research carried out by, with and for these groups ; and build the leadership for suicide […]
He Waipuna Koropupū
Description A literature review has been undertaken in two distinct phases: the first, at the time of proposal submission and the second to provide an overview of the critical and authored literature, agency resources and Action Plans supporting suicide prevention in the Taranaki community. In the first instance, key national health documents informed phase […]
Waka Hourua, ko au, ko koe, ko tātou Māori suicide prevention community programme
Description In 2014, the first dedicated national Māori Suicide prevention approach coupled with a Pasifika programme was launched, profiled as the Waka Hourua National Suicide Prevention Programme 2014 –2017 funded by the Ministry of Health. Te Rau Matatini, a national Māori non-government organisation and their Pasifika partner organisation Le Va, established and offered the […]
Indigenous suicide: The Tūramarama Declaration
Description Across the globe, suicide has become a major public health concern. Indigenous suicide rates have escalated over the past two decades and continue to exceed national rates. In 2016, a Māoritribal organisation, Ngāti Pikiao, convened an international conference, Turamarama ki te Ora, to discuss global approaches to the prevention of suicide. To bring […]
Eke panuku eke Tangaroa: Evaluation of Waka Hourua, Māori community suicide prevention projects-Part 2
Description This article provides a summation of the provision of the Māori community fund of the Waka Hourua Māori and Pasifika Suicide Prevention Programme. It presents brief narratives of the 47 Māori community projects funded through the Waka Hourua Māori and Pasifika Suicide Prevention fund. This article also acknowledges the achievements of these initiatives, […]