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    A Critical Tiriti Analysis of Te Pae Tata: The Interim New Zealand Health Plan
    (New Zealand Medical Association, 2023-04-14) Rae, Ngaire; Came, Heather; Bain, Leah; McCambridge, Alana
    The current health reforms in Aotearoa New Zealand are being described as “transformational”. Political leaders and Crown officials maintain the reforms embed a commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, address racism and promote health equity. These claims are familiar and have been used to socialise previous health sector reforms. This paper interrogates claims of engagement with Te Tiriti by undertaking a desktop critical Tiriti analysis (CTA) of Te Pae Tata: the Interim New Zealand Health Plan. CTA follows five stages from orientation, close reading, determination, strengthening practice, to the Māori final word. The determination was done individually and a consensus was negotiated from the indicators; silent, poor, fair, good, or excellent. Te Pae Tata proactively engaged with Te Tiriti across the entirety of the plan. The authors assessed Te Tiriti elements of the preamble, kāwanatanga and tino rangatiratanga as “fair”, ōritetanga as “good” and wairuatanga as “poor”. Engaging more substantively with Te Tiriti requires the Crown to recognise that Māori never ceded sovereignty and treaty principles are not equivalent to the authoritative Māori text. Recommendations of the Waitangi Tribunal WAI 2575 and Haumaru reports need to be explicitly addressed to allow monitoring of progress.
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    Asian Health in Aotearoa New Zealand: Highlights and Actionable Insights
    (Pasifika Medical Association Group, 2024-08-23) Parackal, S; Holroyd, E
    Currently, “Asians” make up 17% of the population in Aotearoa New Zealand. This proportion has doubled since 2013.1 Focus on the health of Asians in Aotearoa New Zealand was first initiated in 2005 through an investigation using the 2002–2003 New Zealand Health Survey data.2 Subsequently, there have been other reports using both health survey3 and administrative health data.4 Asian health in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2024 reports trends in various health indicators from the health survey from 2002–2003 to 2021 for the South Asian, Chinese and Other Asian groups separately. Disaggregated data of health indicators are critical to understand the sub-group differences and prevent masking the true state of health due to the effect of averaging.5 The Other Asian group is a concerning mixed grouping of East and Southeast Asians who have differing risks for disease—for example, diabetes.5 This editorial aims to highlight the health status for both children and adults, focussing on health indicators with worrying trends, and provide actionable insights for a way forwards in addressing and improving Asian health in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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    Exploring Factors That Influence Vaccination Uptake for Children with Refugee Backgrounds: An Interpretive Description Study of Primary Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives
    (Elsevier, 2023-10-04) Cavit, Larisa; Charania, Nadia
    Background Children with refugee backgrounds are at high risk of acquiring vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) due to a complex set of factors, one being under-immunisation. In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), reported age-appropriate vaccination rates are suboptimal among children with refugee backgrounds. Methods A qualitative interpretive description study was undertaken to explore factors associated with access and uptake of immunisations and develop strategies to improve age-appropriate vaccinations among refugee children post-resettlement in NZ. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with healthcare providers (nurses and doctors) (N = 14) across seven resettlement locations in NZ. Collected data was transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed. Results Five themes were derived from the data that demonstrate the interrelated factors that influence vaccination uptake across the refugee caregiver, health provider and system levels. Providers discussed how caregivers’ competing resettlement priorities and challenges early in the resettlement phase influenced their knowledge and access of vaccines and health services in NZ. Providers’ knowledge of refugee caregivers’ concerns was seen as a driver for positive change in forming therapeutic relationships with, and delivering health services to, former refugees. They discussed system level factors that influence access to and provision of immunisation services, such as resourcing, resettlement policies, system inefficiencies and missed opportunities. Emphasis was placed on communication between patients and providers to facilitate positive immunisation experiences. Overwhelming, providers displayed high motivation to improve immunisation services. Strategies were suggested to overcome identified barriers and included the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate resources, education campaigns, reducing access barriers (e.g., after-hours clinics), and improving system efficiencies. Conclusions These findings highlight root factors that impact immunisation uptake and experiences among children with refugee backgrounds. To reduce the burden of VPDs, broad system level changes are required to address the barriers to vaccine uptake faced by both families of refugee backgrounds and health providers.
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    Understanding Intimate Partner Violence: Why Coercive Control Requires a Social and Systemic Entrapment Framework
    (SAGE Publications, 2023-10-09) Tolmie, Julia; Smith, Rachel; Wilson, Denise
    How intimate partner violence (IPV) is conceptualized affects what we see when we look at situations involving IPV and what we think the solutions to the problem of IPV are-either in individual cases or in the development of broader legal and policy responses. In this article, it is suggested that while conceptualizing IPV as coercive control is an improvement over previous understandings, it does not go far enough. Coercive control must be located within a broader conceptualization of IPV as a form of social and systemic entrapment if it is not to operate in a harmful manner for victim-survivors.
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