Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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955262 | Social Science & Medicine | 2005 | 19 Pages |
Abstract
The economic reforms in New Zealand during the 1980s and early 1990s impacted harder upon Mäori and Pacific people in terms of unemployment and income, and are a likely explanation for the diverging mortality trends in this period. Both behavioural factors and health services probably also play a role, but in the absence of trend data by ethnicity, their contribution to diverging mortality trends is unknown. Internationally, our study demonstrates marked undercounting of Mäori and Pacific deaths. We strongly encourage researchers and custodians of vital statistics in other countries to investigate the possibility of undercounting of deaths by ethnicity.
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Authors
Tony Blakely, Martin Tobias, Bridget Robson, Shilpi Ajwani, Martin Bonné, Alistair Woodward,