Amohia Boulton
Biographic Data
| ID | 80876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amohia Boulton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amohia |
| FAMILY NAME | Boulton |
| SIGNATURE | BOULTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Whakauae Research (New Zealand) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2041-3588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Embodying Mana Wāhine: Rongoā as Identity, Body Sovereignty and Knowledge Transmission
This article examines how Māori healers navigate the reclamation and revitalization of rongoā Māori as a locus of cultural identity, bodily sovereignty, and intergenerational resilience. Drawing on qualitative interviews, the study employs a hybrid methodology combining Kaupapa Māori principles with Indigenous qualitative research methods. Findings highlight that rongoā is not solely a therapeutic modality but also a living expression of mana wāh…
It's Like a Different Lens’: How Māori Independent Research Centres Contribute to Aotearoa's Research Sector
With the announcement and initial proposal for transformation of the Science System in Aotearoa, there is a generational opportunity to recognise and invest in Māori research centres as hubs of Māori research excellence. However, there is no explicit recognition of Māori research centres within this vision, despite literature consistently highlighting the need for greater Māori research capacity. This article uses a case study of Whakauae Researc…
Reclaiming the Threads: Re-Narrating Māori Stories in New Spaces
This paper explores the translation of Māori (Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand) research data into innovative formats and spaces that enhance communication with a broad audience, including Indigenous communities and other key stakeholders. Using the Tō Mātou Kāinga tō Mātou Ūkaipō (Supporting Flourishing Home Environments) research project - a study focused on Māori perspectives of home and wellbeing - as a case study, this paper illust…
Activating Indigenous ways’ – perceptions of how Australian Indigenous health and wellbeing program evaluations are commissioned and future recommendations
To improve the quality of evaluations further attention needs to be paid to the commissioner's cultural capability. Additionally, Commissioners need to develop their understanding of the relationship between Commissioner and Indigenous people's power and the utility of evaluations
Māori linked administrative data: Te Hao Nui - A novel Indigenous data infrastructure and longitudinal study
Worldwide, large amounts of administrative data are collected within official statistics systems on Indigenous Peoples. These data are primarily used for government and state policy purposes as opposed to by Indigenous Peoples to support Indigenous agendas (Taylor & Kukutai, 2017). In Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu New Zealand, Māori need high quality data to develop evidence-based policies and programs and to monitor government policies that impact o…
Enacting Mana Māori Motuhake during Covid-19 in Aotearoa (New Zealand): “We Weren’t Waiting to Be Told What to Do”
Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand), were at the centre of their country's internationally praised COVID-19 response. This paper, which presents the results of qualitative research conducted with 27 Māori health leaders exploring issues impacting the effective delivery of primary health care services to Māori, reports this response. Against a backdrop of dominant system services closing their doors or reducing capacity, iwi, ha…
A scoping review of commissioning practices used in the evaluation of Indigenous health and wellbeing programs: Protocol article
Despite the billions of dollars invested in improving Indigenous health and wellbeing outcomes in Australia, there is little evidence of program effectiveness to inform policy and practice. The deficiency of evaluations is problematic. Critical to this process is the effective engagement of commissioners with Indigenous peoples, which is not well documented. Currently, there is scant evidence on modes of commissioning practices used. This scoping…
Whānau experiences of supporting a hospitalised family member away from their home base
In Aotearoa New Zealand, accessing the required level of hospital care can mean a patient is transferred away from their home base. Being transferred away from familiar surroundings inequitably impacts on people who live in rural areas, including Māori. During such transfers, whānau (family) of Māori patients who travel to support their unwell family member are also away from wider support systems. This paper presents the findings of 17 semi‐stru…
The TE Ranga Tupua Covid-19 Response: The strength of Māori relationships and Iwi networks in Aotearoa New Zealand
“Ko te pae tawhiti whāia kia tata, ko te pae tata whakamaua kia tina; seek to bring distant horizons closer and sustain and cherish those that have been arrived at”. This whakatauāki or proverb, from Dr Whakaari Te Rangitakuku Metekingi (LLD, CBE) of Whanganui and Ngāti Hauiti tribes reminds us that, while we must have a vision to aspire towards, we must also tend to the here and now, to the issues that are up front and close to home. It exhorts …
Ko Au te Whenua, Ko te Whenua Ko Au: I Am the Land, and the Land Is Me”: Healer/Patient Views on the Role of Rongoā Māori (Traditional Māori Healing) in Healing the Land
In Rongoā Māori (traditional Māori healing), the connection with the land stems from seeing Papatūānuku/Mother Earth as a part of our identity/whakapapa (genealogy), our culture, and our wellbeing. This qualitative study aimed to explore the holistic nature and meaning of Rongoā Māori. There were 49 practitioner and patient participants who participated in semi-structured interviews and focus groups across Aotearoa/New Zealand. The findings showe…
E hoki mai nei ki te ūkaipō—Return to Your Place of Spiritual and Physical Nourishment
This paper presents the findings of the Perceptions of Papakāinga project, which explores the connection between place, genealogy, and identity for two Māori (New Zealand’s Indigenous people) communities: one living within an iwi (tribal) context, and one living within an urban context. The research explores how Māori-specific concepts which define home and identity are perceived and enacted across all participants, and how participants define ‘h…
Māori perceptions of ‘home’: Māori housing needs, wellbeing and policy
This paper presents the findings of the Perceptions of Papakāinga project, a 12‐month, Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga funded project which explores comparative views of ‘home’ for Māori. The findings highlight the emerging themes around the meaning of ‘home’ for three different generations of Māori living in different geographical locations and how these meanings shape or influence the perception of how to ‘be well at home’. By investigating the views …
Public administration reform for Aboriginal affairs: An institutionalist analysis
Persistent underperformance of public policy and program implementation in Aboriginal affairs is widely recognised. We analysed the results of two case studies of attempted reforms in public administration of Aboriginal primary health care in the Northern Territory, using a framework based on the institutionalist and systemic racism literatures, with the aim of better understanding the sources of implementation failure. Implementation of the agre…
Strategies to support culturally safe health and wellbeing evaluations in Indigenous settings in Australia and New Zealand: A concept mapping study
The results suggest that the commissioning of evaluation is crucial as it sets the stage for whether evaluations: reflect Indigenous interests, are planned in ways that align with Indigenous ways of working and are translated to benefit Indigenous communities Identified strategies align with health promotion principles and relational accountability values of Indigenous approaches to research. These findings may be relevant to the commissioning an…
Acknowledging the Māori cultural values and beliefs embedded in rongoā Māori healing
An exploration of rongoā Māori (a system of Māori healing based on Māori cultural traditions) was conducted to ascertain the cultural values and beliefs of Māori, the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa/New Zealand, that are related to Māori healing. A Kaupapa Māori approach utilising Māori cultural concepts throughout the research process guided the overall study design. Semi-structured narrative interviews were conducted in 2009 and 2010 with 17 ron…
Constructing prevention programmes with a Māori health service provider view
Mainstream approaches to chronic condition management and prevention inadequately address the needs of Māori, the Indigenous people of New Zealand. Māori health service providers (MHSPs) are uniquely placed to address the critical gap in the prevention of chronic conditions. In this paper, we report qualitative research findings investigating how prevention was being modelled, practiced and measured in selected MHSP settings. Results indicate bar…
The ethics of care and transformational research practices in Aotearoa New Zealand
Democratising methodologies often require research partnerships in practice. Research partnerships between indigenous and non-indigenous partners are commonplace, but there is unsatisfactory guidance available to non-indigene researchers about how to approach the relationship in a way that builds solidarity with the aims of the indigenous community. Worse still, non-indigenous researchers may circumvent indigenous communities to avoid causing off…
Reflective commentaries
Provider, father, and bro – Sedentary Māori men and their thoughts on physical activity
Sedentary Māori men understand the importance of physical activity well, and have a desire to be more active. Nevertheless, they find it difficult to do so while balancing other priorities, especially cultural obligations to community and whānau (immediate and wider family). This research provides valuable insight for those promoting physical activity or designing health initiatives so that they better resonate with indigenous and minority men
Enacting Kaitiakitanga: Challenges and Complexities in the Governance and Ownership of Rongoā Research Information
This article explores the tensions one research team has faced in securing appropriate governance or stewardship (which we refer to as kaitiakitanga) of research data. Whilst ethical and regulatory frameworks exist which provide a minimum standard for researchers to meet when working with Māori, what our experience has highlighted is there is currently a "governance" gap in terms of who should hold stewardship of research data collected from Māor…
Whānau Ora; He Whakaaro Ā Whānau: Māori Family Views of Family Wellbeing
This article presents the findings from two studies that investigated the concept of whānau ora (family wellbeing): One examined the nature of resilience for Māori whānau and how resilience relates to whānau ora; while the second investigated the impact of the Working for Families policy on Māori families' perceptions of whānau ora. In each study, Māori were asked to define whānau ora for their family. The responses to the "whānau ora" definition…
A Relationship Between the Ethics of Care and Māori Worldview—The Place of Relationality and Care in Maori Mental Health Service Provision
This short practice article draws on a small empirical study of M?ori mental health nurses who work in mainstream and specialist cultural services. Emphasis on relationality in the M?ori worldview places people at the heart of caring and resonates with the care principles of Tronto's integrity of care. Personal motivations for caring as well as tribal expectations of providing care and protecting integrity and respect for the person, even when ta…
Regionalization as an Opportunity for Meaningful Indigenous Participation in Healthcare: Comparing Canada and New Zealand
In Canada and New Zealand, policies support Indigenous participation in the planning and delivery of community-based primary health services. However, these services represent only a fraction of the health services accessed by Indigenous peoples. In New Zealand, legislation enacted in 2000 introduced mechanisms to ensure that Māori have a voice in the decisions made by health boards. In Canada, neither policies nor legislation currently ensure th…
Blurred Boundaries in Participatory Action Research: When a Critical Friend becomes too Critical to Project Implementation and Sustainability
This article discusses the subtle distinction between the role of a critical friend in participatory action research (PAR) evaluation and that of intervention project management, along with tensions that arise when the roles become blurred. These tensions are particularly evident when the imperatives for contributing to Māori development and local-level capacity-building impact on PAR evaluation best practice. The article draws on the experiences…
Implementing Working for Families: The impact of the policy on selected Māori whānau
This paper presents an analysis of the qualitative data collected for a study investigating the effect of the Working for Families policy on Māori families’ self‐reported whānau ora (family wellbeing). Data are drawn from a discrete set of 30 qualitative interviews undertaken with Māori whānau involved in the Te Hoe Nuku Roa Longitudinal Study. Whānau perceptions about how the Working for Families policy has impacted on their lives and the contri…
The ethics of care and transformational research practices in Aotearoa New Zealand
Democratising methodologies often require research partnerships in practice. Research partnerships between indigenous and non-indigenous partners are commonplace, but there is unsatisfactory guidance available to non-indigene researchers about how to approach the relationship in a way that builds solidarity with the aims of the indigenous community. Worse still, non-indigenous researchers may circumvent indigenous communities to avoid causing off…
Analysing Contractual Environments: Lessons From Indigenous Health in Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Contracting in health care is a mechanism used by the governments of Canada, Australia and New Zealand to improve the participation of marginalized populations in primary health care and improve responsiveness to local needs. As a result, complex contractual environments have emerged. The literature on contracting in health has tended to focus on the pros and cons of classical versus relational contracts from the funder's perspective. This articl…
Māori perceptions of ‘home’: Māori housing needs, wellbeing and policy
This paper presents the findings of the Perceptions of Papakāinga project, a 12‐month, Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga funded project which explores comparative views of ‘home’ for Māori. The findings highlight the emerging themes around the meaning of ‘home’ for three different generations of Māori living in different geographical locations and how these meanings shape or influence the perception of how to ‘be well at home’. By investigating the views …
A Relationship Between the Ethics of Care and Māori Worldview—The Place of Relationality and Care in Maori Mental Health Service Provision
This short practice article draws on a small empirical study of M?ori mental health nurses who work in mainstream and specialist cultural services. Emphasis on relationality in the M?ori worldview places people at the heart of caring and resonates with the care principles of Tronto's integrity of care. Personal motivations for caring as well as tribal expectations of providing care and protecting integrity and respect for the person, even when ta…
Blurred Boundaries in Participatory Action Research: When a Critical Friend becomes too Critical to Project Implementation and Sustainability
This article discusses the subtle distinction between the role of a critical friend in participatory action research (PAR) evaluation and that of intervention project management, along with tensions that arise when the roles become blurred. These tensions are particularly evident when the imperatives for contributing to Māori development and local-level capacity-building impact on PAR evaluation best practice. The article draws on the experiences…
Public administration reform for Aboriginal affairs: An institutionalist analysis
Persistent underperformance of public policy and program implementation in Aboriginal affairs is widely recognised. We analysed the results of two case studies of attempted reforms in public administration of Aboriginal primary health care in the Northern Territory, using a framework based on the institutionalist and systemic racism literatures, with the aim of better understanding the sources of implementation failure. Implementation of the agre…
Whānau Ora; He Whakaaro Ā Whānau: Māori Family Views of Family Wellbeing
This article presents the findings from two studies that investigated the concept of whānau ora (family wellbeing): One examined the nature of resilience for Māori whānau and how resilience relates to whānau ora; while the second investigated the impact of the Working for Families policy on Māori families' perceptions of whānau ora. In each study, Māori were asked to define whānau ora for their family. The responses to the "whānau ora" definition…
E hoki mai nei ki te ūkaipō—Return to Your Place of Spiritual and Physical Nourishment
This paper presents the findings of the Perceptions of Papakāinga project, which explores the connection between place, genealogy, and identity for two Māori (New Zealand’s Indigenous people) communities: one living within an iwi (tribal) context, and one living within an urban context. The research explores how Māori-specific concepts which define home and identity are perceived and enacted across all participants, and how participants define ‘h…
Reflective commentaries
Enacting Kaitiakitanga: Challenges and Complexities in the Governance and Ownership of Rongoā Research Information
This article explores the tensions one research team has faced in securing appropriate governance or stewardship (which we refer to as kaitiakitanga) of research data. Whilst ethical and regulatory frameworks exist which provide a minimum standard for researchers to meet when working with Māori, what our experience has highlighted is there is currently a "governance" gap in terms of who should hold stewardship of research data collected from Māor…
Reflections on the Use of a Māori Conceptual Framework to Evaluate Complex Health Policy: The Case of New Zealand's Healthy Eating, Healthy Action Strategy Evaluation
Obesity among Māori is of growing concern in New Zealand with rates for Māori being one-and-a-half times that of the total population. The New Zealand government's Healthy Eating—Healthy Action: Oranga Kai—Oranga Pumau (HEHA) Strategy has, in the past seven years, been a significant policy mechanism through which the health sector has been able to address the increasing prevalence of obesity and associated chronic diseases
Māori Health Promotion: Challenges for best practice
Aim: This article presents results from an evaluation of a Māori obesity prevention initiative, Te Kahui Whai Ora-Healthy Lifestyles & Tamariki Programme, and questions whether the use of children as agents of change in health-promotion activity is best practice for Māori health promotion. Methods: Health promotion programme evaluation collected information on the activities, characteristics, context and impact of the programme. We report on data…
Taking Account of Culture: The contracting experience of Māori mental health providers
The major reforms in the New Zealand health sector during the 1990s resulted in a burgeoning in the numbers of Māori health providers, many of whom worked in the area of mental health. Occurring alongside these health reforms was an increased concern with public accountability and interest in measuring the performance of Crown (New Zealand Government) agencies. During 2001-2004, research was undertaken that sought to understand the mental health …
Conducting Excellent Research with Indigenous Communities: Balancing Commitment to Community and Career
There has been a growing trend in New Zealand/Aotearoa for health research involving Māori (the indigenous people) to be conducted in partnership with Māori communities, iwi (tribes), hapū (sub-tribes) and whānau (extended families). Achieving excellence in indigenous health research which meets the standards both of the indigenous communities who partner in the research and the standards set by the academy, is often a complex and demanding objec…
Analysing Contractual Environments: Lessons From Indigenous Health in Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Contracting in health care is a mechanism used by the governments of Canada, Australia and New Zealand to improve the participation of marginalized populations in primary health care and improve responsiveness to local needs. As a result, complex contractual environments have emerged. The literature on contracting in health has tended to focus on the pros and cons of classical versus relational contracts from the funder's perspective. This articl…
Implementing Working for Families: The impact of the policy on selected Māori whānau
This paper presents an analysis of the qualitative data collected for a study investigating the effect of the Working for Families policy on Māori families’ self‐reported whānau ora (family wellbeing). Data are drawn from a discrete set of 30 qualitative interviews undertaken with Māori whānau involved in the Te Hoe Nuku Roa Longitudinal Study. Whānau perceptions about how the Working for Families policy has impacted on their lives and the contri…
Reflections on the Use of a Māori Conceptual Framework to Evaluate Complex Health Policy: The Case of New Zealand's Healthy Eating, Healthy Action Strategy Evaluation
Obesity among Māori is of growing concern in New Zealand with rates for Māori being one-and-a-half times that of the total population. The New Zealand government's Healthy Eating—Healthy Action: Oranga Kai—Oranga Pumau (HEHA) Strategy has, in the past seven years, been a significant policy mechanism through which the health sector has been able to address the increasing prevalence of obesity and associated chronic diseases
Māori Health Promotion: Challenges for best practice
Aim: This article presents results from an evaluation of a Māori obesity prevention initiative, Te Kahui Whai Ora-Healthy Lifestyles & Tamariki Programme, and questions whether the use of children as agents of change in health-promotion activity is best practice for Māori health promotion. Methods: Health promotion programme evaluation collected information on the activities, characteristics, context and impact of the programme. We report on data…
Regionalization as an Opportunity for Meaningful Indigenous Participation in Healthcare: Comparing Canada and New Zealand
In Canada and New Zealand, policies support Indigenous participation in the planning and delivery of community-based primary health services. However, these services represent only a fraction of the health services accessed by Indigenous peoples. In New Zealand, legislation enacted in 2000 introduced mechanisms to ensure that Māori have a voice in the decisions made by health boards. In Canada, neither policies nor legislation currently ensure th…
Blurred Boundaries in Participatory Action Research: When a Critical Friend becomes too Critical to Project Implementation and Sustainability
This article discusses the subtle distinction between the role of a critical friend in participatory action research (PAR) evaluation and that of intervention project management, along with tensions that arise when the roles become blurred. These tensions are particularly evident when the imperatives for contributing to Māori development and local-level capacity-building impact on PAR evaluation best practice. The article draws on the experiences…
A Relationship Between the Ethics of Care and Māori Worldview—The Place of Relationality and Care in Maori Mental Health Service Provision
This short practice article draws on a small empirical study of M?ori mental health nurses who work in mainstream and specialist cultural services. Emphasis on relationality in the M?ori worldview places people at the heart of caring and resonates with the care principles of Tronto's integrity of care. Personal motivations for caring as well as tribal expectations of providing care and protecting integrity and respect for the person, even when ta…
Enacting Kaitiakitanga: Challenges and Complexities in the Governance and Ownership of Rongoā Research Information
This article explores the tensions one research team has faced in securing appropriate governance or stewardship (which we refer to as kaitiakitanga) of research data. Whilst ethical and regulatory frameworks exist which provide a minimum standard for researchers to meet when working with Māori, what our experience has highlighted is there is currently a "governance" gap in terms of who should hold stewardship of research data collected from Māor…
Whānau Ora; He Whakaaro Ā Whānau: Māori Family Views of Family Wellbeing
This article presents the findings from two studies that investigated the concept of whānau ora (family wellbeing): One examined the nature of resilience for Māori whānau and how resilience relates to whānau ora; while the second investigated the impact of the Working for Families policy on Māori families' perceptions of whānau ora. In each study, Māori were asked to define whānau ora for their family. The responses to the "whānau ora" definition…
Provider, father, and bro – Sedentary Māori men and their thoughts on physical activity
Sedentary Māori men understand the importance of physical activity well, and have a desire to be more active. Nevertheless, they find it difficult to do so while balancing other priorities, especially cultural obligations to community and whānau (immediate and wider family). This research provides valuable insight for those promoting physical activity or designing health initiatives so that they better resonate with indigenous and minority men
Acknowledging the Māori cultural values and beliefs embedded in rongoā Māori healing
An exploration of rongoā Māori (a system of Māori healing based on Māori cultural traditions) was conducted to ascertain the cultural values and beliefs of Māori, the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa/New Zealand, that are related to Māori healing. A Kaupapa Māori approach utilising Māori cultural concepts throughout the research process guided the overall study design. Semi-structured narrative interviews were conducted in 2009 and 2010 with 17 ron…
Constructing prevention programmes with a Māori health service provider view
Mainstream approaches to chronic condition management and prevention inadequately address the needs of Māori, the Indigenous people of New Zealand. Māori health service providers (MHSPs) are uniquely placed to address the critical gap in the prevention of chronic conditions. In this paper, we report qualitative research findings investigating how prevention was being modelled, practiced and measured in selected MHSP settings. Results indicate bar…
The ethics of care and transformational research practices in Aotearoa New Zealand
Democratising methodologies often require research partnerships in practice. Research partnerships between indigenous and non-indigenous partners are commonplace, but there is unsatisfactory guidance available to non-indigene researchers about how to approach the relationship in a way that builds solidarity with the aims of the indigenous community. Worse still, non-indigenous researchers may circumvent indigenous communities to avoid causing off…
Reflective commentaries
Strategies to support culturally safe health and wellbeing evaluations in Indigenous settings in Australia and New Zealand: A concept mapping study
The results suggest that the commissioning of evaluation is crucial as it sets the stage for whether evaluations: reflect Indigenous interests, are planned in ways that align with Indigenous ways of working and are translated to benefit Indigenous communities Identified strategies align with health promotion principles and relational accountability values of Indigenous approaches to research. These findings may be relevant to the commissioning an…
Public administration reform for Aboriginal affairs: An institutionalist analysis
Persistent underperformance of public policy and program implementation in Aboriginal affairs is widely recognised. We analysed the results of two case studies of attempted reforms in public administration of Aboriginal primary health care in the Northern Territory, using a framework based on the institutionalist and systemic racism literatures, with the aim of better understanding the sources of implementation failure. Implementation of the agre…
E hoki mai nei ki te ūkaipō—Return to Your Place of Spiritual and Physical Nourishment
This paper presents the findings of the Perceptions of Papakāinga project, which explores the connection between place, genealogy, and identity for two Māori (New Zealand’s Indigenous people) communities: one living within an iwi (tribal) context, and one living within an urban context. The research explores how Māori-specific concepts which define home and identity are perceived and enacted across all participants, and how participants define ‘h…
Māori perceptions of ‘home’: Māori housing needs, wellbeing and policy
This paper presents the findings of the Perceptions of Papakāinga project, a 12‐month, Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga funded project which explores comparative views of ‘home’ for Māori. The findings highlight the emerging themes around the meaning of ‘home’ for three different generations of Māori living in different geographical locations and how these meanings shape or influence the perception of how to ‘be well at home’. By investigating the views …
The TE Ranga Tupua Covid-19 Response: The strength of Māori relationships and Iwi networks in Aotearoa New Zealand
“Ko te pae tawhiti whāia kia tata, ko te pae tata whakamaua kia tina; seek to bring distant horizons closer and sustain and cherish those that have been arrived at”. This whakatauāki or proverb, from Dr Whakaari Te Rangitakuku Metekingi (LLD, CBE) of Whanganui and Ngāti Hauiti tribes reminds us that, while we must have a vision to aspire towards, we must also tend to the here and now, to the issues that are up front and close to home. It exhorts …
Ko Au te Whenua, Ko te Whenua Ko Au: I Am the Land, and the Land Is Me”: Healer/Patient Views on the Role of Rongoā Māori (Traditional Māori Healing) in Healing the Land
In Rongoā Māori (traditional Māori healing), the connection with the land stems from seeing Papatūānuku/Mother Earth as a part of our identity/whakapapa (genealogy), our culture, and our wellbeing. This qualitative study aimed to explore the holistic nature and meaning of Rongoā Māori. There were 49 practitioner and patient participants who participated in semi-structured interviews and focus groups across Aotearoa/New Zealand. The findings showe…
Māori linked administrative data: Te Hao Nui - A novel Indigenous data infrastructure and longitudinal study
Worldwide, large amounts of administrative data are collected within official statistics systems on Indigenous Peoples. These data are primarily used for government and state policy purposes as opposed to by Indigenous Peoples to support Indigenous agendas (Taylor & Kukutai, 2017). In Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu New Zealand, Māori need high quality data to develop evidence-based policies and programs and to monitor government policies that impact o…
Enacting Mana Māori Motuhake during Covid-19 in Aotearoa (New Zealand): “We Weren’t Waiting to Be Told What to Do”
Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand), were at the centre of their country's internationally praised COVID-19 response. This paper, which presents the results of qualitative research conducted with 27 Māori health leaders exploring issues impacting the effective delivery of primary health care services to Māori, reports this response. Against a backdrop of dominant system services closing their doors or reducing capacity, iwi, ha…
A scoping review of commissioning practices used in the evaluation of Indigenous health and wellbeing programs: Protocol article
Despite the billions of dollars invested in improving Indigenous health and wellbeing outcomes in Australia, there is little evidence of program effectiveness to inform policy and practice. The deficiency of evaluations is problematic. Critical to this process is the effective engagement of commissioners with Indigenous peoples, which is not well documented. Currently, there is scant evidence on modes of commissioning practices used. This scoping…
Sociology (24 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (19 works) · Political science (19 works) · Indigenous (16 works) · Public relations (16 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Aotearoa (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)