{"id":7183,"date":"2022-07-14T02:56:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T02:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homeworkacetutors.com\/acemyhomework\/literature-review-health-inequalities-among-the-maori\/"},"modified":"2022-07-14T02:56:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T02:56:04","slug":"literature-review-health-inequalities-among-the-maori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeworkacetutors.com\/acemyhomework\/literature-review-health-inequalities-among-the-maori\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature Review: Health Inequalities among the Maori"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A critical review of key literature relevant to the underlying historical, social, economic and political processes that have contributed to the inequalities and disparities in the Maori and non-Maori health status.<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Inequality means watching people close to you \u2026 persistently struggling \u2026 to keep their households afloat, to do their best for their children and to make good decisions by weighing up the constrained range of choices on offer.Karlo Mila<\/p>\n

Inequality continues to dominate among New Zealand\u2019s Maori and non Maori populations. There is u<\/strong>nacceptable and intolerable inequalities exist among Maori and non-Maori in a range of social measures, economic status and many minor and major health care related measures and services.<\/p>\n

Discrimination is unhealthy which shortens lives and wastes energy, time, material, potential and loss the confidence of an individual having good efficiency, experience and interpersonal skills. There may be various forms of discrimination in different areas and job palace.<\/p>\n

According to a research, there is an 8\u2013year difference in life expectancy between Maori and Pakeha is particularly galling to most of population. But for some conditions, Maori having risk of getting the disease or disorder as comparison to other community people. But there are much higher chances of dying from these disease conditions.<\/p>\n

Moreover, there is also discrimination in renting or buying a house reported by Maori and firstly discrimination was associated with lifestyle factors of Maori people and discrimination in health care and health care delivery services was the second most commonly reported type.<\/p>\n

The Treaty of Waitangi<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Treaty of Waitangi was an agreement, made in 1840, between theBritish Crown<\/a>and various Maori chiefs. Major differences between both was language versions of the Treaty which make it difficult to understand exactly what the principles and promises are which are did. The Treaty gave the British some rights to govern in New Zealand, and the rights of the chiefs to ownership of their properties, and gave Maori the rights of British citizens.<\/p>\n

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  1. Historical review<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As a population group, Maori have the poorest health status in comparison to other community people because most of the Maori people are living in rural area or small towns. Maori life improved dramatically after the second war. But it was less then Pakeha.<\/p>\n

    Moreover, District Health Boards (DHBs) are required to improve the health status of Maori people and reduce health disparities for Maori as compared to other population groups in New Zealand. Most of the times health providers tend to deliver good health services and also disability services to predominantly Maori clients according to their need.<\/p>\n

    One is the common examples of interpersonal racism with Maori and non-Maori people was demonstrated in \u2018paired mystery shopper\u2019 research where Maori and Pakeha with similar facilities and conditions applied for the same rental house and Maori were more likely to be refused.<\/p>\n

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    1. Socio economic review<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Measuring inequality: Mortality trends are common method to know about health status and inequality. One fact is that increased income inequality contributed to increased inequality in mortality rates.The gap was leesen from the 1990s to the 2000s, a time when the economy improved and health policies started to address health inequalities.<\/p>\n

      Socio-economic factors and ethnicity are also contributed to people\u2019s health. The Maori people\u2019s health is mostly influenced by social factors such as diet, living area, education, income and lifestyle. But, in the later years, the gap between the mortality rate of Maori and non Maori people was increasing day by day.<\/p>\n

      Since European colonisation Maori consistently had lower life expectancy and poorer health thanPakaha<\/a>, and people living in deprived areas or people living in rural areas have worse health than those in wealthier neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n

      The other aspect is that, Cancer is a main cause of death in New Zealand. The Maori people who are poor more likely to smoke, drink. But lack of use of good diet and also lack of exercise. Their houses are more cold, damp and polluting heating which is the main cause of respiratory problems like asthma.<\/p>\n

      But all these conditions were less and almost absent in non Maori people because of great lifestyle and well balanced diet and health care services provided by the government to the community people.<\/p>\n

      From the 1980s, with the expansions in the economic restructuring there was major job losses, shifts to user-pays for public services that may be health services, income sources, disability services and other facilities and wide-ranging benefit cuts of facilities, touched the lives of all the New Zealanders. However, Maori and other community people were particularly disadvantaged by these policies, and during the 1990s differences between Maori and non-Maori incomes sources and job opportunity increased again. The gap then decreased gradually in the 2000s. There was a reduction in unemployment among Maori, and significant improvement in the earnings of Maori women. The income of Maori men relative to non-Maori hardly changed from 1991 to 2006. When income of people was decreased it means that people likely to have more struggle to fulfils the needs and demands of their families.<\/p>\n

      3.Political Review<\/p>\n

      To reduce the inequalities, the government made various policies for both social and economic initiatives. The policy aims to reduce the disadvantage or negligence of inequality and promote equality among the Maori and non-Maori people for opportunity so as to achieve a similar distribution of services between groups and community people, and also equal distribution of overall outcomes within people of various society. This aim was for:<\/p>\n