Best health outcomes for Maori: Practice implications

Abstract

This resource booklet is designed to assist branch advisory bodies and doctors in meeting cultural competence requirements of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (HPCAA), and to address the health inequalities affecting Mäori. The booklet will complement the Medical Council of New Zealand (the Council)’s Statement on best practices when providing care to Mäori patients and their whänau, and Statement on cultural ompetence. The goal of this booklet is to help doctors to achieve greater awareness of the cultural diversity and the place of Mäori in New Zealand, and to assist in incorporating cultural competence for Mäori into continuing education activities, recertification and practice activities such as medical audits.