Making a difference for Māori health
Community and Public Health is committed to ensuring positive Māori health outcomes and reducing inequities. 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 (Te Pae Māhutonga) 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 is working with Māori to assist and to strengthen whānau, hapū and iwi – in addition to liaising with non-Māori.
Community and Public Health works in Māori settings such as Marae, Kura and Kōhanga Reo. Staff aim to support Māori communities to make their own healthy choices, and create their own healthy environments.
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’.
- Download an information sheet on the COVID-19 vaccine (Health Promotion Agency).
- Find out about tiakina tō hauora during the COVID-19 pandemic [Te Pānui Rūnaka article – 194KB PDF].
Come along to the MIHI Māori Mobile COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic
This vaccination clinic will be based at Shop 2 in South City Shopping Centre (555 Colombo Street, Christchurch) during Alert Levels 2, 3 and 4.
Please ring 0800 MIHI 4U (0800 644 448) to make a booking for you and your whānau to be vaccinated.
Previously this mobile clinic service was supporting to Māori households to get vaccinated at marae and other local Māori community venues.
Māori vaccination rates reach 80 percent first dose
Beehive media release: 25th November 2021
Associate Minister of Health (Māori) Hon Peeni Henare today confirmed that Māori across the motu have now reached 80 percent for first doses of the COVID-19 vaccination nationally.
“We have seen a huge increase in vaccinations for Māori throughout November, since the beginning of the month the increase for first doses has been 7.9 percent and second doses 12.4 percent,” Peeni Henare said.
“It is especially heartening to see that Māori continue to protect whānau and communities by lifting Aotearoa’s first dose vaccination rate. This includes 212, 324 rangatahi (12-34 year olds) who have come forward to receive their vaccinations, which has helped lead us to this important milestone.
“As you would expect, kaumatua have led the way vaccinating for their mokopuna, resulting in high vaccination rates. This has seen 91.6 percent of Māori over 65 fully vaccinated, which compares well with any other group in New Zealand.
“These milestones reflect the hard work Māori health providers and our Māori community leaders have put in to reach Māori across the motu to support the vaccination drive, by door-knocking, going to workplaces and places of worship to vaccinate.
“However, we still have work to do to reach those who are yet to receive their first dose and we continue to encourage those who have had a first dose to ensure they return for their second dose so they are fully vaccinated. There are currently over 42,000 Māori who are eligible to get their second dose after waiting more than the minimum 21 days between doses.
“Aotearoa is only days away from moving into the new COVID-19 Protection Framework and vaccination is an important part of protecting our communities from COVID-19. I encourage everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand who is yet to take up the vaccination wero to visit covid19.govt.nz to find their nearest drive-through, walk-in or booking.
“We want all our communities to be protected against COVID-19,” Minister Henare said.
New fund to accelerate Māori vaccinations
Beehive media release: 22nd October 2021
The Government has established a $120 million fund to accelerate Māori vaccination rates and support communities to prepare for the implementation of the new COVID-19 Protection Framework.
The new Māori Communities COVID-19 Fund will directly fund Māori, Iwi, community organisations and providers to deliver local vaccination initiatives for whānau, and support Māori and communities to prepare for the new protection framework.
The fund will assist in reaching Māori not yet vaccinated including rangatahi, whānau without permanent housing, whānau in rural and remote locations, and whānau not well connected to health services. Local Iwi, Māori organisations and providers are best placed to reach and support these groups.
$60 million will go towards accelerating Māori vaccination rates and a further $60 million will support Māori and iwi-led initiatives to protect their communities against COVID-19.
Documents
Latest Māori Health Publications
- Role of Māori in the transition to a low-emissions economy (Ministry for the Environment 2021).
- Youth’19: Brief on Rainbow Rangatahi Māori (University of Auckland 2021).
- Youth’19: Brief on Rangatahi with a disability or chronic condition (University of Auckland 2021).
- Funding to Māori Health Providers 2015/16 to 2019/20 (Ministry of Health 2021).
- What Makes a Good Life for Tamariki and Rangatahi Māori? (Oranga Tamariki and the Children’s Commissioner 2021).
- More Than Just a Jab: Evaluation of the Māori Influenza Vaccination Programme as part of the COVID-19 Māori Health Response (Ministry of Health 2021).
- Mana to Mana: Principles of ‘Mana to Mana’ Practice in Community Food Distribution (Kore Hiakai Zero Hunger Collective 2021).
- COVID-19 Māori Vaccine and Immunisation Plan (Ministry of Health 2021).
- Alcohol Use in New Zealand Survey (AUiNZ) 2019/20 – Māori results (Health Promotion Agency 2021).
- Whakamaua: Māori Health Action Plan 2020-2025 (Ministry of Health 2020).
- Updated COVID-19 Māori Response Action Plan (Ministry of Health 2020).
- Wai 2575 Māori Health Trends Report (Ministry of Health 2019).
- Hauora: Report on Stage One of the Health Services and Outcomes Kaupapa Inquiry (Waitangi Tribunal 2019).
- Te Oranga Hinengaro: Māori Mental Wellbeing (Health Promotion Agency 2018).
- Māori attitudes and behaviours towards alcohol (Health Promotion Agency 2018).
- Te Ohonga Ake: The Health Status of Māori Children and Young People in New Zealand – Series Two (NZ Child and Youth Epidemiology Service 2017).
- Ngā Hua A Tāne Rore: the Benefits of Kapa Haka (Ministry for Culture and Heritage 2014).
- The Health of Māori Adults and Children, 2011–2013 (Ministry of Health 2014).
- Te Ohonga Ake: The Determinants of Health for Māori Children and Young People (University of Otago 2014).
- The Health and Wellbeing of Māori NZ Secondary School Students in 2012/ Te Ara Whakapiki Taitamariki: Youth’12 (University of Auckland 2013).
- Hapū Ora: Wellbeing in the early stages of life (Massey University 2013).
- Mātātuhi Tuawhenua: Health of Rural Māori 2012 (Ministry of Health).
- A Focus on Māori Nutrition: Findings from the 2008/09 NZ Adult Nutrition Survey (Ministry of Health 2012).
- Māori Smoking and Tobacco Use 2011 (Ministry of Health).
- Tatau Kura Tangata: Health of Older Māori Chart Book 2011 (Ministry of Health).
- Hauora Waitaha I: Health Profile for Māori in Canterbury (Community and Public Health 2010).
Māori Health Tools, Models and Strategies
- Te Tiriti o Waitangi-based practice in health promotion (STIR: Stop Institutional Racism 2017).
- The Guide to He Korowai Oranga – Māori Health Strategy (Ministry of Health 2014).
- Whānau Ora: Transforming our futures (Ministry of Health 2011).
- The Health Equity Assessment Tool: A User’s Guide (Ministry of Health 2008).
- TUHANZ – a Treaty Understanding of Hauora in Aotearoa-New Zealand (Health Promotion Forum 2002).
- Te Pae Māhutonga: A model for Māori health promotion (Mason Durie 1999).
Downloads
Download or order resources from the Community Health Information Centre.
- Me Mutu Tātou/ Let’s All Quit.
- Me ū ki te wā tika hei whakatō i te kano ārai mate ki tō tamaiti.
- Aroha in Action (Ministry of Social Development).
- Te Tiriti o Waitangi/ The Treaty of Waitangi.
Links
For further information, contact:
CANTERBURY
Ph: +64 3 364 1777
SOUTH CANTERBURY
Gwen Angelm-Bower
Ph: +64 3 687 2600
WEST COAST
Eli-Ana Maiara
Ph: +64 3 768 1160
MĀORI RELATIONSHIP MANAGER
Gail McLauchlan
Ph: +64 3 364 1777
Te Mana Ora Pānui
Nau mai haere mai. This pānui aims to share kōrero on the mahi happening within Community and Public Health and our Māori communities.
New digital tool with sass helps wāhine Māori ditch the smokes
Health Promotion Agency media release: 18th October 2021
Kuīni is a new digital tool for young wāhine who want to quit smoking. She is a chatbot with a personality, face and attitude that is all about young, dynamic and diverse Māori women.
“That word Kuīni is so special to me,” says Ngā Puhi/Samoa artist Coco Solid who led the concept of Kuīni with Te Hiringa Hauora/ Health Promotion Agency.
“It flips what we, as Māori women, are constantly told about ourselves – which is that we’re the bottom rung of the ladder. We’re saying ‘you are the centre, you define what this is, the vernacular is yours, the world view is yours’.”
A chatbot lets people interact with digital devices as if they are communicating with a real person. Kuīni runs through Facebook Messenger, checks in three times a day and is available 24/7. Women are supported for the first 30 days of their smokefree journey for free. They get encouragement and distraction through quizzes, tips and video – much of which is infused with mātauranga Māori.
Hauora and oranga resources from the All Right? campaign
Hikitia te Hā is a simple breathing exercise developed by Rawiri Hindle and supported by the All Right? campaign. Three new Hikitia te Hā videos have been developed after the success of the first one. The exercises are extended into tai chi, taiaha and yoga.
- The Maramataka resource gives life to a Māori tradition that aligns wellbeing with the phases of the moon [Te Pānui Rūnaka article – 184KB].
- Find out about Te Waioratanga ki Waitaha 2019-2020 (All Right?).
- Read more about the Māori wellness leaders featured in the new Hikitia te Hā videos [Te Pānui Rūnaka article – 346KB].
All Right? has created season-based activities that whānau can do together. Vaea Coe (Ngāi Tahu, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Ngāti Porou) from the All Right? team says “When it comes to the wellbeing of our community, it all comes back to whānau. The activities are all about looking to strengthen the everyday magic that happens within the whānau”.
He Tohu Ora: Find out about Māori wellbeing in greater Christchurch
He Tohu Ora is part of the Canterbury Wellbeing Index and presents indicators that reflect a Māori view of wellbeing. 19 indicators were selected on the basis of a te ao Māori worldview and the availability of suitable quantitative data.
For example you can find information on:
- how many Māori in Canterbury can speak and understand te reo;
- how Māori rate their whānau wellbeing and their own quality of life; and
- how important Māori feel taha wairua and engagement in Māori culture are to their wellbeing.
Whānau, community leaders and policy makers are encouraged to explore the data and use it to put the wellbeing of Māori at the front and centre of decision making.
He Tohu Ora was developed in liaison with Ngāi Tahu and Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu.
