Report on the Management of Health Care

Running head: HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT
Health care management
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Executive summary:
Maori are over represented in many negative health statistics in New Zealand and
disparities in Maori infant health is one of the issue in the population group. The disparities in
health outcome of Maori infants compared to rest of the population has been seen mainly
because low immunization coverage in the group. This report has given an insight into the poorer
heath outcome in Maori infants using local and national health statistics related to immunization
rate and infant hospitalization rate in the country. The role of the government in addressing the
health issue has been examined and three recommendations have been proposed to address the
health issue applying the Principle of Te Teriti O Waitangi. The rationale for each
recommendation has been justified by explaining the ways in which the strategies target
inequities and promote health for Maori.

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Table of Contents
Executive summary:........................................................................................................................1
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Review of Maori immunization rate:...............................................................................................4
Role of government in addressing health issues for Maori:............................................................6
Using principle of Te Teriti O Waintangi to propose three recommendations to address the health
issue:................................................................................................................................................9
Rational for the recommendation:.................................................................................................10
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................13
Reference.......................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction:
The health status of Maori has been a major focus of attention among researchers because
of over-representation of Maori in many negative health statistics of New Zealand. Although
there are many illness or health issues that give insight into poor health outcome in Maoris,
however this report specifically looks at issues of high infant hospitalization rate in Maoris and
relation of the high infant hospitalization rate to immunization coverage for the population
group. With support from local and national health statistics, the report discusses about poor
immunization coverage in the population group. The report also provides a critical discussion on
the role of the government in addressing health inequities for Maoris. In addition, three
recommendations to address immunization issue are also presented by application of the
principles of Te Tiriti O Waitangi. Lastly, the rationale for each recommendation is discussed to
show how they can address health inequities and improve health outcomes for Maori.
Review of Maori immunization rate:
The immunization schedule for New Zealand mainly covers vaccines like Rotavirus, DPT
(Diptheria/Tetanus/Pertusis), measle, varicella and many other vaccines. Childhood respiratory
infection is a large burden of disease in New Zealand with lifelong health consequence. The
immunization schedule focuses on the delivery of special child immunization for pertussis and
influenza to reduce hospitalizations due to childhood respiratory infection (Chang et al., 2015).
Children have been hospitalized mainly for respiratory conditions, skin-related disorders and
dental problems. Due to high rate of hospitalization for respiratory infection, the Ministry of
Health in New Zealand has made asthma a priority area to reduce hospitalization rates among
children aged 0-4 years (Ministry of Health, 2017). One of the issues that have increased rate of