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Human Rights Commission
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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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