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There are four dimensions of hauora: taha tinana (physical well-being – health), taha hinengaro (mental and emotional well-being – self-confidence), taha whanau (social well-being – self-esteem) and taha wairua (spiritual well-being – personal beliefs).
Whānau Ora (Māori for "healthy families") is a major contemporary indigenous health initiative in New Zealand, driven by Māori cultural values. Its core goal is to empower communities and extended families ( whānau ) to support families within the community context rather than individuals within an institutional context.
[9] [10] In 2019, in response to the claim, a Waitangi Tribunal report said the Crown was to set up a stand-alone Māori health agency, and consider compensation for failing to improve Māori health over the past 20 years. By failing to set up and run the primary health system in a way that reduced the gap between Maori and non-Maori health ...
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The 1990s also saw the separation of intellectual handicaps from mental health services, [22] and more attention was paid to Māori, who were over-represented in the mental health system. From 2012 on, the Health and Disability Commission has overseen the integration of New Zealand's response to mental health issues.
Te Aka Whai Ora (the Māori Health Authority) is a statutory entity responsible for ensuring that the New Zealand health system meets the needs of Māori. It will work in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Health New Zealand to achieve the following stated goals:
Durie has affiliations with the Rangitāne, Ngāti Kauwhata and Ngāti Raukawa tribes of New Zealand.He grew up in Feilding and attended Te Aute College in Hawke's Bay. John Mason Durie was his grandfather, [1] and he is the older brother of former High Court judge and chief judge of the Māori Land Court, Sir Eddie Durie.
The Tohunga Suppression Act 1907 was an Act of the New Zealand Parliament aimed at replacing tohunga as traditional Māori healers with western medicine.. It was introduced by James Carroll who expressed impatience with what he considered regressive Māori attitudes, as he was worried those attitudes would isolate Māori. [1]