Pathways to health and wellbeing for Pacific children--how are we tracking?
Savila, F.'a.; Rush, E.
New Zealand Medical Journal 127(1404): 67-70
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 1175-8716 PMID: 25331314 Document Number: 678000
The government's 5-year strategy for improving Pacific people's health and wellbeing, 'Ala Mo'ui Pathways to Pacific Health and Wellbeing 2010-2014, emphasised disease prevention and improvements in health systems as priority outcomes. Actions that would contribute to disease prevention included reducing barriers to health in structural mechanisms (such as better access to healthy housing) and improving health service systems. However, after 4 years since its release, not only have important structural barriers remained but so have the poor health outcomes of Pacific peoples in New Zealand.