Suzanne Pitama
Biographic Data
| ID | 131595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Pitama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitama |
| SIGNATURE | PITAMA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1664-0518 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aspire to excellence
This article explores the evolving landscape of social accountability in medical education through the lens of the AMEE ASPIRE-to-Excellence initiative. Social accountability has become increasingly recognized as a fundamental principle in health professional education, requiring health professional education and training programs to align their teaching, research, and service activities with the priority health concerns, namely those of the comm…
Kotahitanga—connection, unity, and belonging
In Aotearoa New Zealand, perinatal mental health outcomes and maternal suicide rates demonstrate that Māori (the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand) mothers and birthing parents have the worst outcomes relative to other ethnic groups. Little research exists exploring Indigenous approaches to perinatal mental health or the perspectives of Indigenous peoples on perinatal mental health interventions. This article explores a kaupapa Māori (Māori appro…
They were my anchors” Māori with perinatal mental illness identify culturally safe and clinically excellent health care
Quality clinical care occurs within a system, and structural components of the health system can influence practice and impact provision of care. It is systemic changes that will facilitate clinicians' contribution to equitable outcomes for Māori, through the creation of services that support clinicians to prioritise working with whānau, engage in culturally safe practice, and address the barriers that prevent Māori from accessing evidence-based …
Institutional pathways to psychosis for Indigenous Māori
Inequities in the incidence and outcomes of first episode psychosis (FEP) for Indigenous peoples are impacted by multiple institutional systems. This study examines Indigenous experiences of these systems to gain an understanding of how to improve institutional responses to FEP inequity. Critical race theory informed the methods used. Twenty-three participants participated in four focus group interviews, and thirteen individual interviews, includ…
Thank you for Listening' Kaupapa Māori Methodology as a Facilitator of Culturally Safe Research With Māori Mothers Experiencing Perinatal Mental Illness
Māori are the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand, and, similar to other Indigenous populations, face significant health inequities. Of concern, Māori mothers and birthing parents experience persistent and grave mental health inequities within the perinatal period relative to other ethnic groups. Indigenous research participants who have mental illness and who are also pregnant or in the early stages of parenting present intersecting ethi…
Racism, early psychosis, and institutional contact
BACKGROUND: There is evidence of Indigenous and ethnic minority inequities in the incidence and outcomes of early psychosis. Racism has been implicated as having an important role. AIM: To use Indigenous experiences to develop a more detailed understanding of how racism operates to impact early psychosis outcomes. METHODS: Critical Race Theory informed the methodology used. Twenty-three Indigenous participants participated in four family focus gr…
Māori preferences and practices in systemic health and social service collaborative practice
In the field of mental health and addictions, there is a lack of research that acknowledges or considers Indigenous needs, preferences, and approaches to the design, development and maintenance of collaborative health and social initiatives in rural communities. This study presents a Kaupapa Māori (Indigenous Māori research approach) qualitative case study in a small rural community. The study focused on three groups involved within service colla…
Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Quality of End-of-Life Health Care Services for Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease
Stakeholders' perspectives of end-of-life care for COPD identified of core features of a health system network that enabled or impeded the actions of stakeholders and allocation of resources to provide quality care
It's about having that knowledge, tino rangatiratanga!’ Understanding structural barriers to accessing aged residential care services among older Māori in New Zealand
New Zealand's older Indigenous people (Māori) are underserved and underrepresented as consumers of aged residential care services (ARC). This study seeks to ascertain, from the perspectives of older Māori and whānau (family), the influence of structural factors that impact the process of seeking aged residential care. This study used a qualitative Kaupapa Māori research approach. In‐depth interviews were undertaken with older Māori ( n = 30) and …
Positioning Stakeholder Perspectives in COPD End-of-Life Care Using Critical Theory and Actor-Network Theory
Background Meaningful engagement with stakeholders in the provision of healthcare and services is recommended by the World Health Organisation. Culturally specific evaluation may enable deeper exploration of the critical views of people living with advanced long-term conditions, their support people, and healthcare providers. Aim and design This article describes how critical theory and Actor-Network theory involved all stakeholders including pat…
Exploring elderly Māori experiences of aged residential care using a kaupapa Māori research paradigm
There are differences between research that is performed in an Indigenous setting using Western methodologies and research performed using Indigenous methodologies. Kaupapa Māori research provides opportunities for Māori, the Indigenous people of New Zealand, to participate in and influence research agendas and processes while providing a platform for Māori to contribute to empirical knowledge about Māori peoples. Using the central tenets of whak…
It absolutely needs to move out of that structure’
A commitment to equity when implementing structural change is needed, including ongoing evaluation and refinement. This paper provides specific recommendations that should be considered in health service redesign to ensure the New Zealand mental health system meets the needs of Māori patients with BD and their whānau
Māori experiences of hospital care
Indigenous experiences of hospitalisation may contribute to maintenance of Indigenous health inequities. We undertook a qualitative systematic review of Māori experiences of hospital care within New Zealand. We performed electronic database searches and used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement to assist study selection. We were guided by Kaupapa Māori (Māori centred) research methodology and used the C…
Impaired wellness in medicine
Effectively conceptualising impaired wellness for physicians requires review of the roles and responsibilities of teams, health service leadership and the health system as a whole
Indigenous peoples’ experiences and preferences in aged residential care
Although the demand for aged residential care increases, low use of aged residential care by Indigenous people raises questions about unrecognised barriers to health care. The objectives of this systematic literature review are to (a) examine current scientific literature that reports older Indigenous people’s experiences in aged residential care and (b) describe critical factors that shape Indigenous people’s preferences in aged residential care…
Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua
Research on collaboration between health and social service organisations and professions often views collaboration from the narrow perspective of being between practitioners from different professions at a set point in time. This is often also focused on issues of efficacy and does not address the role of identity, values, and practices, or “culture” within collaboration, an important aspect when engaging with indigenous populations. This study …
The Transformative Potential of Kaupapa Māori Research and Indigenous Methodologies
This article presents a description of a specific Indigenous research methodology, Kaupapa Māori Research (KMR), followed by a discussion of the potential contribution that KMR and other Indigenous frameworks make toward understanding and addressing widespread mental health inequities affecting the world's Indigenous peoples. The contribution of existing qualitative KMR to the fields of health and mental health in New Zealand is discussed, and in…
Consolidated criteria for strengthening reporting of health research involving indigenous peoples
BACKGROUND: Research reporting guidelines are increasingly commonplace and shown to improve the quality of published health research and health outcomes. Despite severe health inequities among Indigenous Peoples and the potential for research to address the causes, there is an extended legacy of health research exploiting Indigenous Peoples. This paper describes the development of the CONSolIDated critERtia for strengthening the reporting of heal…
Inequity in dialysis related practices and outcomes in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Non-Māori patients are treated with temporary dialysis vascular access less often than Māori, and experience longer life expectancy with dialysis, even when socioeconomic, demographic, and geographical factors are equivalent. Based on these disparities, health services should monitor and address inequitable treatment practices and outcomes in end-stage kidney disease care
Working With Racism
The nursing profession in New Zealand and other countries of indigenous peoples needs to acknowledge the presence of racism within training and clinical environments as well as supporting indigenous registered nurses to develop and implement indigenous dual cultural-clinical competencies
The Transformative Potential of Kaupapa Māori Research and Indigenous Methodologies
This article presents a description of a specific Indigenous research methodology, Kaupapa Māori Research (KMR), followed by a discussion of the potential contribution that KMR and other Indigenous frameworks make toward understanding and addressing widespread mental health inequities affecting the world's Indigenous peoples. The contribution of existing qualitative KMR to the fields of health and mental health in New Zealand is discussed, and in…
Working With Racism
The nursing profession in New Zealand and other countries of indigenous peoples needs to acknowledge the presence of racism within training and clinical environments as well as supporting indigenous registered nurses to develop and implement indigenous dual cultural-clinical competencies
Positioning Stakeholder Perspectives in COPD End-of-Life Care Using Critical Theory and Actor-Network Theory
Background Meaningful engagement with stakeholders in the provision of healthcare and services is recommended by the World Health Organisation. Culturally specific evaluation may enable deeper exploration of the critical views of people living with advanced long-term conditions, their support people, and healthcare providers. Aim and design This article describes how critical theory and Actor-Network theory involved all stakeholders including pat…
Māori experiences of hospital care
Indigenous experiences of hospitalisation may contribute to maintenance of Indigenous health inequities. We undertook a qualitative systematic review of Māori experiences of hospital care within New Zealand. We performed electronic database searches and used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement to assist study selection. We were guided by Kaupapa Māori (Māori centred) research methodology and used the C…
Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Quality of End-of-Life Health Care Services for Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease
Stakeholders' perspectives of end-of-life care for COPD identified of core features of a health system network that enabled or impeded the actions of stakeholders and allocation of resources to provide quality care
Working With Racism
The nursing profession in New Zealand and other countries of indigenous peoples needs to acknowledge the presence of racism within training and clinical environments as well as supporting indigenous registered nurses to develop and implement indigenous dual cultural-clinical competencies
Inequity in dialysis related practices and outcomes in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Non-Māori patients are treated with temporary dialysis vascular access less often than Māori, and experience longer life expectancy with dialysis, even when socioeconomic, demographic, and geographical factors are equivalent. Based on these disparities, health services should monitor and address inequitable treatment practices and outcomes in end-stage kidney disease care
Consolidated criteria for strengthening reporting of health research involving indigenous peoples
BACKGROUND: Research reporting guidelines are increasingly commonplace and shown to improve the quality of published health research and health outcomes. Despite severe health inequities among Indigenous Peoples and the potential for research to address the causes, there is an extended legacy of health research exploiting Indigenous Peoples. This paper describes the development of the CONSolIDated critERtia for strengthening the reporting of heal…
Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua
Research on collaboration between health and social service organisations and professions often views collaboration from the narrow perspective of being between practitioners from different professions at a set point in time. This is often also focused on issues of efficacy and does not address the role of identity, values, and practices, or “culture” within collaboration, an important aspect when engaging with indigenous populations. This study …
The Transformative Potential of Kaupapa Māori Research and Indigenous Methodologies
This article presents a description of a specific Indigenous research methodology, Kaupapa Māori Research (KMR), followed by a discussion of the potential contribution that KMR and other Indigenous frameworks make toward understanding and addressing widespread mental health inequities affecting the world's Indigenous peoples. The contribution of existing qualitative KMR to the fields of health and mental health in New Zealand is discussed, and in…
Impaired wellness in medicine
Effectively conceptualising impaired wellness for physicians requires review of the roles and responsibilities of teams, health service leadership and the health system as a whole
Indigenous peoples’ experiences and preferences in aged residential care
Although the demand for aged residential care increases, low use of aged residential care by Indigenous people raises questions about unrecognised barriers to health care. The objectives of this systematic literature review are to (a) examine current scientific literature that reports older Indigenous people’s experiences in aged residential care and (b) describe critical factors that shape Indigenous people’s preferences in aged residential care…
Exploring elderly Māori experiences of aged residential care using a kaupapa Māori research paradigm
There are differences between research that is performed in an Indigenous setting using Western methodologies and research performed using Indigenous methodologies. Kaupapa Māori research provides opportunities for Māori, the Indigenous people of New Zealand, to participate in and influence research agendas and processes while providing a platform for Māori to contribute to empirical knowledge about Māori peoples. Using the central tenets of whak…
It absolutely needs to move out of that structure’
A commitment to equity when implementing structural change is needed, including ongoing evaluation and refinement. This paper provides specific recommendations that should be considered in health service redesign to ensure the New Zealand mental health system meets the needs of Māori patients with BD and their whānau
Māori experiences of hospital care
Indigenous experiences of hospitalisation may contribute to maintenance of Indigenous health inequities. We undertook a qualitative systematic review of Māori experiences of hospital care within New Zealand. We performed electronic database searches and used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement to assist study selection. We were guided by Kaupapa Māori (Māori centred) research methodology and used the C…
Racism, early psychosis, and institutional contact
BACKGROUND: There is evidence of Indigenous and ethnic minority inequities in the incidence and outcomes of early psychosis. Racism has been implicated as having an important role. AIM: To use Indigenous experiences to develop a more detailed understanding of how racism operates to impact early psychosis outcomes. METHODS: Critical Race Theory informed the methodology used. Twenty-three Indigenous participants participated in four family focus gr…
Māori preferences and practices in systemic health and social service collaborative practice
In the field of mental health and addictions, there is a lack of research that acknowledges or considers Indigenous needs, preferences, and approaches to the design, development and maintenance of collaborative health and social initiatives in rural communities. This study presents a Kaupapa Māori (Indigenous Māori research approach) qualitative case study in a small rural community. The study focused on three groups involved within service colla…
Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Quality of End-of-Life Health Care Services for Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease
Stakeholders' perspectives of end-of-life care for COPD identified of core features of a health system network that enabled or impeded the actions of stakeholders and allocation of resources to provide quality care
It's about having that knowledge, tino rangatiratanga!’ Understanding structural barriers to accessing aged residential care services among older Māori in New Zealand
New Zealand's older Indigenous people (Māori) are underserved and underrepresented as consumers of aged residential care services (ARC). This study seeks to ascertain, from the perspectives of older Māori and whānau (family), the influence of structural factors that impact the process of seeking aged residential care. This study used a qualitative Kaupapa Māori research approach. In‐depth interviews were undertaken with older Māori ( n = 30) and …
Positioning Stakeholder Perspectives in COPD End-of-Life Care Using Critical Theory and Actor-Network Theory
Background Meaningful engagement with stakeholders in the provision of healthcare and services is recommended by the World Health Organisation. Culturally specific evaluation may enable deeper exploration of the critical views of people living with advanced long-term conditions, their support people, and healthcare providers. Aim and design This article describes how critical theory and Actor-Network theory involved all stakeholders including pat…
Institutional pathways to psychosis for Indigenous Māori
Inequities in the incidence and outcomes of first episode psychosis (FEP) for Indigenous peoples are impacted by multiple institutional systems. This study examines Indigenous experiences of these systems to gain an understanding of how to improve institutional responses to FEP inequity. Critical race theory informed the methods used. Twenty-three participants participated in four focus group interviews, and thirteen individual interviews, includ…
Thank you for Listening' Kaupapa Māori Methodology as a Facilitator of Culturally Safe Research With Māori Mothers Experiencing Perinatal Mental Illness
Māori are the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand, and, similar to other Indigenous populations, face significant health inequities. Of concern, Māori mothers and birthing parents experience persistent and grave mental health inequities within the perinatal period relative to other ethnic groups. Indigenous research participants who have mental illness and who are also pregnant or in the early stages of parenting present intersecting ethi…
Kotahitanga—connection, unity, and belonging
In Aotearoa New Zealand, perinatal mental health outcomes and maternal suicide rates demonstrate that Māori (the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand) mothers and birthing parents have the worst outcomes relative to other ethnic groups. Little research exists exploring Indigenous approaches to perinatal mental health or the perspectives of Indigenous peoples on perinatal mental health interventions. This article explores a kaupapa Māori (Māori appro…
They were my anchors” Māori with perinatal mental illness identify culturally safe and clinically excellent health care
Quality clinical care occurs within a system, and structural components of the health system can influence practice and impact provision of care. It is systemic changes that will facilitate clinicians' contribution to equitable outcomes for Māori, through the creation of services that support clinicians to prioritise working with whānau, engage in culturally safe practice, and address the barriers that prevent Māori from accessing evidence-based …
Aspire to excellence
This article explores the evolving landscape of social accountability in medical education through the lens of the AMEE ASPIRE-to-Excellence initiative. Social accountability has become increasingly recognized as a fundamental principle in health professional education, requiring health professional education and training programs to align their teaching, research, and service activities with the priority health concerns, namely those of the comm…
Medicine (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Indigenous (10 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (8 works) · Mental health (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Qualitative research (7 works)