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A new report highlighting the disparity in the health system for Maori shows the challenge in improving fairness in the health sector, the New Zealand Medical Association says.
The Burden of Disease study, which was released yesterday by the Ministry of Health, measured "health loss" or how much healthy life was lost due to premature death, illness or impairment.
The Ministry said the data would help predict fatal and non-fatal health losses until 2016.
Amongst the report's findings was that Maori had about a 75 per cent higher rate of health loss than non-Maori.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10910616
The Burden of Disease study, which was released yesterday by the Ministry of Health, measured "health loss" or how much healthy life was lost due to premature death, illness or impairment.
The Ministry said the data would help predict fatal and non-fatal health losses until 2016.
Amongst the report's findings was that Maori had about a 75 per cent higher rate of health loss than non-Maori.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10910616