Tauiwi1 General Practitioners' Explanations of Maori2 Health

Colonial Relations in Primary Healthcare in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Bibliographic Data

ID4749700
AuthorsTim Mccreanor (0000-0002-2295-9605), Timothy Mccreanor (University of Auckland), Raymond Nairn (University of Auckland)
Year2002
Volume7
Issue5
Pages509-518
Publication date2002-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359105302007005670
PMID22113137
OpenAlexW2061002149
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited28

This article reports initial findings from qualitative research investigating how general practitioners talk about Maori health. Transcripts of semistructured interviews with 25 general practitioners from urban Auckland were subjected to critical discursive analyses. Through this process of intensive, analytic reading, interpretative repertoires-patterns of words and images about a particular topic-were identified. This article presents the main features of one such repertoire, termed Maori Morbidity, that the general practitioners used in accounting for poor Maori health status. Our participants were drawing upon a circumscribed pool of ideas and explaining the inequalities in health between Maori and Tauiwi in ways that gave primacy to characteristics of Maori and their culture. We discuss the implications of this conclusion for relations between Maori patients and Tauiwi doctors in primary healthcare settings

Aotearoa · Colonialism · Health care · Linguistics · Political science · Primary health care · Qualitative research · Reading (process · Repertoire · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of health and illness · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Research in Social Sciences · Gender Studies · History

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