New research released today reiterates that people's experience of racism within the health system leads to poorer health outcomes.
A range of articles published in the New Zealand Medical Journal put the spotlight on inequities in the health system - specifically facing Māori and Pasifika.
One piece of research estimates Māori deaths rates from Covid-19 would be double that of non-Māori - with more than 15-hundred Māori and Pasifika dying in Counties Manukau alone.
Another article talks to the most common cancers among Māori and what needs to change within the system in order to curb the prominent disparities.
Māni Dunlop spoke to lead-author and epidimeolgist, Jason Gurney, about the cancer killing hundreds of Maori every year - lung cancer.
