Research Catalog

Title

Whaiora : Maori health development / Mason Durie.

Author

Durie, Mason

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

viii, 244 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

"This second edition of Whaiora ... takes account of changed government objectives for Māori health and shifting Māori 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 Māori."--Back cover.

Subject

• Māori (New Zealand people) > Health and hygiene
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Medical care
• Biculturalism > New Zealand
• Medical policy > New Zealand
• Ethnic groups
• Public Health > history
• Ethnicity
• ethnic groups
• Ethnic groups
• Biculturalism
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Health and hygiene
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Medical care
• Medical policy
• Hauora
• Mana ake
• Kāwanatanga
• Ratonga
• Anga
• New Zealand

Note

• 1st ed. published 1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-235) and index.

Contents

Te ao Tawhito = Maori public health systems & healing -- Nga tau hekenga = Depopulation, disease, & dispossession -- Te hokinga mai o te mauri = Twentieth-century recovery & growth -- Tirohanga Maori = Maori health perspectives -- Te kawenata o Waitangi = The application of the Treaty of Waitangi to health -- Tikanga rua = Biculturalism & Maori health -- Hauora tangata = Maori health status -- Mana-a-iwi = Maori development & the health reforms -- Whaia te ora mo te iwi = Government objectives for Maori health -- Whainga Maori = Maori priorities for health development.

ISBN

• 0195584031
• 9780195584035

LCCN

99217630

OCLC

• ocm40462575
• 40462575
• SCSB-766585

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library