Māori Health

In our series “A great place to work”, Pharmacy Today highlights positivity into pharmacy pharmacies offering a work culture that attracts and retains staff. This month, we visit south Auckland. Natasha Jojoa Burling reports 

Sixty biologically active compounds have been found in kawakawa, which could mean big business possibilities

Māori health leaders hope the decolonisation of traditional rongoā healing will help to improve health outcomes for Māori. With ACC funding rongōa services and promises of more contracts, pharmacists supporting rongoā welcome its partnership with mainstream medicine. Paulette Crowley reports 

The legal showdown between the New Zealand Independent Pharmacists Group, Te Whatu Ora and the Ministry of Health had its third and final day in the High Court at Wellington. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports 

Already on a sharp ascent in the world of academia Fulbright winner Joanna Hikaka has won a Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis at University of Auckland 

HAVING THE CONVERSATION about maternal vaccinations with pregnant Māori women goes a long way to persuading them to get vaccinated, a recently published study suggests. 

Pharmacy gets a mention in the Government’s newly released interim New Zealand Health Plan but the document contains few announcements for the sector with little detail about how the measures in it will be implemented or paid for

South Korean-born James Yu is embedded in te ao Māori. His pharmacy lies almost straight ahead when you walk through the doors of the beautiful premises of Te Kōhao Health in Hamilton East.

New research suggests short-acting asthma inhalers are being overused and long-acting ones are underutilised, especially for Māori and Pacific peoples 

Brendon McIntosh (Kāi Tahu) of Kia Kaha Chemist travels around the South Island to marae and community centres giving talks on wellbeing for Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu, the Whanau Ora Commissioning Agency for the South Island. He also locums a few days a week in community pharmacy.