Mortality outcomes and inequities experienced by rural Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous research identified inequities in all-cause mortality between Māori and non-Māori populations. Unlike comparable jurisdictions, mortality rates in rural areas have not been shown to be higher than those in urban areas for either population. This paper uses contemporary mortality data to examine Māori and non-Māori mortality rates in rural and urban areas.

Methods

A population-level observational study using deidentified routinely collected all-cause mortality, amenable mortality and census data. For each level of the Geographic Classification for Health (GCH), Māori and non-Māori age-sex standardised all-cause mortality and amenable mortality incident rates, Māori:Non-Māori standardised incident rate ratios and Māori rural:urban standardised incident rate

SUBMITTER: Crengle S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9420525 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature