Link from colonisation to sick kids drawn for docs 21 Dec 2020 15:06 PM Photo: Radio Waatea Image Database.
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The Royal Australasian College of Physicians is calling for the elimination of gaps between the health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in Aotearoa NZ and Australia.
In a landmark Statement on Indigenous Child Health, it highlighted the need to understand colonial history and how privilege and racism operates within health care systems.
Danny de Lore from Ngāti Tuwharetoa, who chairs the college’s Indigenous Child Health Working Group, says while there are some differences, a lot of the root causes behind negative statistics and health outcomes is common to both countries.