Whaiora. Maori Health Development. By Durie, Mason. 2nd edition

Whaiora. Maori Health Development. By Durie, Mason

Paperback, no inscriptions, sun faded rear cover. 256 pages Published by Oxford University Press Australia, 1999 ISBN: 0195584031 15.5 x 22.6 x 1.3 centimetres (0.31 kg)

Maori health development is about the trials and discoveries of the past, the energies and initiatives of the present, and the priorities and plans for the future. In this welcome second edition of Whaiora, Mason Durie documents progress in Maori health development over the past century, placing special emphasis on the last fifteen years. He draws connections between changes in Maori leadership, Maori political power, and government health policy. Using the twin standards of the Treaty of Waitangi and biculturalism, he examines past policies, health reforms, Maori health leadership and the major health problems currently facing Maori. This second edition of Whaiora deserves to be widely read. It takes account of changed government objectives for Maori health and shifting Maori priorities for health development. Not only does it demolish some misleading stereotypes, but it also offers a comprehensive account of the cultural, environmental, social, economic and political factors that contribute to standards of health among Maori.

Table of Contents Introduction Maori Public Health Systems and Healing Depopulation, Disease, and Dispossession Twentieth-century Recovery and Growth Maori Health Perspectives The Application of the Treaty of Waitangi to Health Biculturalism and Maori Health Maori Health Status Maori Development and the Health Reforms Government Objectives for Maori Health Maori Priorities for Health Development Conclusions References Index

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