Well, you've got one thing sort of right "There is, however, a repetitive strain of racism in lumping all Maaori together, with no diversity of thought, self-determination, resilience, values, ethics, political views" But you've used it to draw a ...
A beautiful story. Thanks.
Really? I thought she stated the changes to improve literacy and the education system very clearly. She didn't shy away from discussing the problems in the system either. i was impressed by the way she managed the interview.
Free prescriptions for approximately 3 million people using a publicly-funded health service from today. This charge did exactly the opposite to intended - instead of reducing waste caused by people getting prescriptions from their GPs for medications they...
Nope, you’ll have to live with an inexplainable closed-off mind. ^ This.
I'm sorry but we're miles apart in our interpretation of this subject that there is no point at all in continuing the conversation.
What the data suggests is we need to address the causes of DNAs to FSAs and that will lead to an improved effective use of limited resources AND better outcomes for Maori and Pacifica (and young people, rural people and all those with a greater than ...
Really? That's a callous way of looking at things. That data shows we need to do more to reduce barriers and improve access, not to leave a whole bunch of people on the healthcare scrap heap! - for people with long waiting times, one of those things was as...
Claiming political indifference dosnt make it so….if the policy is solely data driven then it should have been rejected as the data clearly shows it will make the system less efficient 1. I think you're mixing up the fact that some people will use data as...
Hi Pat You might be better discussing your view with Duncan Bliss, Director Adult Surgery - ORLHN, OMS, ARHSD, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology.. His data-driven view is: [my bold] When Moir spoke to one of the people behind the algorithm, Te Toka...
A better use of (increasingly limited) resources for everyone would be to address the causes of the FSA DNA rate…not to reduce the effective throughput of the system by prioritising the non attendant cohort. Hi Pat, From administrative data, the standout ...
"Your own conclusion has not managed to identify the contributing factors." The conclusion to a paper on administrative data wouldn't do that - it just gives broad categories - like ethnicity and age and location etc. You don't have to agree with me. Just ...
"And the hard part is figuring out exactly why. Then determining which factors play the biggest part, and also what resources are required to change those factors to produce better outcomes. I understand completely that this logical pathway to long term ...
I know I said I'd leave it, but just to understand how far you'd accept genetic differences by ethnicity... "When this is directly evidenced – it should play a part in diagnostics." And treatment that improves the lives of whole communities - not just the ...
The cake is getting smaller? https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NZL/new-zealand/gdp-per-capita I don't think so, it's just bigger slices of the larger cake are going into fewer hands, not more hands, destroying the environment and egalitarianism in the ...
"These are individual wealth grounds. You are conflating them with ethnicity" It's individual and group wealth. I've said before I believe the waiting list criteria to be a blunt tool. But short of reforming the capitalist system, I don't expect Māori and ...
"You seem to be mixing inequity due to access to healthcare, with poorer outcomes due to ethnicity" No, I'm not. both these things are real. One (improved access) can help address the other (outcomes). I do agree however, that unless that there are other ...
"And it is fundamentally – and unequivocally – a institutionally racist system to give preferential treatment on the basis of ethnicity." Except, as the Jo Moir article explains, that's not what is happening. I also have relatives who are in the socially ...
" If the bundle of problems that are represented by that label can be unpacked then they can be targeted and dealt with." They've been unpacked for years. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=access+to+healthcare+M%C4%81ori&btnG=
"Firstly, the idea of ethnicity being a reason for inequity in surgery access is really conflating a number of factors such as need, location, access to primary health care etc. Given those factors are already largely covered in the criterea, it seems to ...
I guess we all should have known an unpaywalled NZ Herald article by Jason Walls and Barry Soper was mischief making.
A good piece. Thanks for linking
I expect that's the situation too. However, just like 3 Waters and co-governance, it's going to be reported as a Māori privilege.
I'm not disagreeing with you - transferring resorces from one group in need to another group in need has always bugged me, whatever the service. I'm saying the priotitisation is fraught and uneven and will continue to be that way for as long as we have a 2...
Inequality is not addressed by switching the players. There's no doubt that Māori have been less likely to receive early referral and effective healthcare. Even now, being Māori and poor is a double disadvantage in receiving healthcare. At an individual ...
She's not wrong. Generally I'd be wary of Janet Wilson, but this piece gels with me. Especially the bits about political trivia - disentangle human mistakes (we all make them) from what's of greater importance. Easier said than done though. Because being a...
Completely agree with all of this. bonding is also an option for cutting the cost of training (student loan reductions) and improving smal town/rural supply. But that's not in vogue anymore. I'd be keen to see some analysis of the reduction in chronic ...
I can see the point about the cost of a one-step move to universal dental coverage, on the otherhand the reduction in inflammatory disease that is linked to poor dental health (peridontal inflammation in particular) could have a huge positive impact on the...
Yeah, a big problem for kids is access to routine dental care - just not enough dentists/dental nurses to go round. "Which countries have universal free dental Care?" Austria for starters, along with several other European social democractic countries. ...
"I saw the discussion on the UBI, " The post isn't on the UBI, it's making the case for universal support/benefits. well worth a read, I reckon. "So far as the targeted aspect goes, we do that now by having a maximum charge for perscriptions for the year. ...
Arrgh Warning - will not be worth the click Damien Grant taking the 'moral and competency' highground?! on Stuff's home page "Chris Hipkins fails both the moral and competency tests of a PM OPINION: Hipkins had achieved almost nothing by the time he ...
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