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Community and Public Health is committed to ensuring positive Māori health outcomes and reducing inequalities. We have a number of projects that specifically address Māori health needs throughout Canterbury, South Canterbury and the West Coast.
Community and Public Health embraces a model of best practice that promotes and brings together the value of traditional and contemporary viewpoints on Māori wellness and current research to enhance its service delivery. Our role, in addition to liaison with non-Māori, is working with Māori to assist and to strengthen whānau, hapū and iwi.
Community and Public Health works in Māori settings such as Marae, Kura and Kohanga Reo, to develop Māori communities, so that they are able to make their own healthy choices, to create their own healthy environments.
Community and Public Health: Achievements Contributing to Improved Maori and Pacific Health (July - December 2009) details our work around improving Māori health outcomes.
We are currently planning our direction forward to explicitly align to the recently released Whanau Ora Outcome Goals. Whanau Ora has been defined as ‘healthy Māori families supported to achieve their maximum health and wellbeing' (Ministry of Health, 2001). Community and Public Health have a valuable role in contributing at a population level to ‘living healthy lifestyles’, ‘participating fully in society’ and 'confidently participating in te ao Māori'.
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Whariki
Te Puni Kokiri
National Library of New Zealand
Takoa Rua-mano
Maori Health (Ministry of Health)
Health Research Council of New Zealand
Health Promotion Forum
He Waka Tapu
Waiora Trust
Aukati Kaipaipa (Community and Public Health)
He Oranga Pounamu
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