113 Human Rights Commission (Continued) v. Māori Education Authority (for government with tino rangatiratanga partners) Māori Health Authority (for government, the Māori Health Authority with tino rangatiratanga partners) Advising, guiding and monitoring the Ministry of Education and Tertiary Education sector, and public schools to develop and implement training programmes for all teachers and educators to understand Māori perspectives of colonisation, racism, white supremacy and the impacts on Māori. 6. Following the Waitangi Tribunal, Hauora Report (2019 Wai 2575) the government established a new national Māori Health Authority | Te Mana Hauora Māori Authority on 1 July 2022. The Commission made comprehensive recommendations to the Pae Ora Bill and stands behind its recommendations. The submission can be read on parliament.nz and includes the government consider the following. 7. The new Māori Health Authority is properly funded and resourced and gives full effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and tino rangatiratanga. 8. The principle of equity, which requires the Crown to achieve equitable health outcomes for Māori, must apply in all health legislation, policy documents and action plans. This includes: i. The health care system legislative framework (New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000) be reviewed to robustly recognise Te Tiriti. ii. Give full effect to Te Tiriti in all documents of the health policy framework including He Korowai Oranga (Māori Health Strategy), New Zealand Health Strategy, New Zealand Disability Strategy, and Primary Health Care Strategy, and action plans, to explicitly state the requirement to provide equitable outcomes for Māori health and wellbeing. iii. Led by the Māori Health Authority, the health system moves away from the ‘protection, partnership and participation’ model towards tino rangatiratanga ‘by Māori for Māori’ approaches that provide for selfdetermination and mana motuhake in the design, delivery, and monitoring of primary health care. iv. That health providers understand Māori health outcomes, how to achieve Māori health equity and support hauora Māori models of care and understand the impacts of colonisation and institutional racism on the health and wellbeing of Māori. v. Equitable funding must support underfunded Māori health providers and support kaupapa Māori health services. 9. Stronger Māori Heath Authority-led monitoring systems be established to properly monitor quantitative and qualitative data on Māori health including reporting by regional health bodies, integrated alongside external Māori-led reviews.

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