Making a difference for Māori health
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 (Te Pae Mahutonga) 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 Kohanga Reo, to develop Māori communities. This so that they are able 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’.
The current CDHB Māori Health Action Plan (2017-18) also outlines the key activities that Community and Public Health will contribute to as part of the Canterbury health system to improve Māori Health outcomes.
Traditional healing a pathway to wellbeing
The Ōtautahi Māori Health Services Directory was launched in December 2018 and is helping to increase whānau accessibility to Ōtautahi Māori healers, and Māori wellbeing practitioners.
All Right? Mental Health Promoter Vaea Coe says the directory is the first of its kind in the South Island. “It’s about having access to Māori knowledge and ways of being,” says Coe.
‘We want whānau to have access to a range of Māori service and activity providers that they can connect to that has value and meaning for them”.
The Ōtautahi Māori Health Services Directory was created by All Right? with support from Te Putahitanga o Te Waipounamu and Tū Pono – Te Mana Kaha o te Whānau.
- View the Ōtautahi Māori Health Services Directory online (All Right?).
Documents
Latest Māori Health Publications
- 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)
- Te Ohonga Ake: The Health Status of Māori Children and Young People in NZ (NZ Child and Youth Epidemiology Service 2012)
- 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)
Maori 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 Mahutonga: 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
Ph: +64 3 687 2600
WEST COAST
Ph: +64 3 768 1160
MĀORI RELATIONSHIP MANAGER
Gail McLauchlan
Ph: +64 3 364 1777
Te Mana Ora Panui
Nau mai haere mai. This pānui aims to share kōrero on the mahi happening within Community and Public Health and our Māori communities.
Issue 14 – August 2019
Nau mai haere mai ki Te Mana Ora. As we find ourselves moving past the shortest day of the year towards the warmth of koanga (spring), the longer afternoons and the subtle shifts in the earth’s energies are always a welcome reprieve from the cold of takurua (winter). Winter in the Māori world – like all seasons – has its place. Matariki provides us the space and time to stay warm, to share histories, whakapapa and lament those who we have lost during the year past. He mihi aroha nui ki a rātou kua whetūrangitia, haere, haere, haere atu rā.
We also have the opportunity to look toward the coming year and to welcome those who bring new energies into our workplaces and into our whānau.
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.
- Read more about the Maori wellness leaders featured in the new Hikitia te Hā videos (Te Panui Rūnaka article).
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”.
