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Election 2023 – health policies of the major parties
“If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything.” — Chuck Pagano, US (former American football coach and player) To be honest, anyone could have come up with that quote. It is attributed to Chuck Pagano, but I know tens, if not hundreds, of people who have...
Prioritising Health in Aotearoa New Zealand
It is hard to imagine any other year so nationally and globally focussed on health than 2020. One would probably have to go back to the Spanish ‘flu epidemic of 1918-19 to find something with similar impact on a global scale, back in a time when it took most people...
Inequities and Disparities
For years Māori and Pasifika peoples have suffered the impacts of inequities and disparities in health that manifest as greater incidence of ill health, poorer access to health and disability services and significantly poorer health outcomes. On average, Māori die...