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The Midland DHBs are committed to working towards Māori health equity and ensuring that they provide care that does not vary in quality because of a person’s characteristics such as gender, race, ethnicity, geographical location or socio-economic status.
Nga Toka Hauora seeks to ensure that the regional work programme activity aligns to improving performance against national Māori health indicators which have been established by the Ministry of Health (see following page), and are entrenched in all DHB Māori Health Plans (refer Appendix 1).
In alignment with this intent, key areas of focus for Māori health for the 2016-2019 period can be grouped into five key areas:
1. SecretarialsupporttotheMidlandIwiRelationship Board
2. DevelopmentofregionalMāorihealthtools
3. Working to reduce the incidence and impact of cancer
4. Workingtoimprovethehealthofour pepi/tamariki
5. Māorihealthworkforcedevelopment
Based on these five groupings specific initiatives for the coming period that will be led by Nga Toka Hauora include:
The Māori Health Equity Framework
Trendly Monitoring and Reporting Tool enhancement
Māori Health Excellence Webinars
He Ritenga Cultural Audit Tool enhancement
Harti Hauora Child Health Innovation Programme
Kia Ora Hauora Māori Workforce Development
“Our vision is to work in co-operation with others to achieve ‘Pae Ora’ a healthy future for our whanau - we want our whanau to be physically, socially, culturally, spiritually and financially strong”
Midland Iwi Relationship Board 2016
Nga Toka Hauora will also provide an oversight and advisory role to ensure that initiatives developed by regional networks and clinical action groups are appropriate and will be effective. The ability for Māori health teams to be actively involved in all regional activities that could improve Māori health outcomes is challenging given finite resources.
Regional workstream groups whose activities impact on Māori health but fall outside the following action table will have an opportunity to meet with Nga Toka Hauora periodically on an ‘as needed’ basis for advice and guidance. A list of these specific activities is provided in Appendix 1.
REGIONAL SERVICES PLAN 2016-2019
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