Ensuring Māori student success and inclusion of te aō Māori through initial teacher education

A cohort study comparing cardiovascular risk factors in rural Māori, urban Māori and non-Māori communities in New Zealand

OBJECTIVES To understand health disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the indigenous Māori of New Zealand, diagnosed and undiagnosed CVD risk factors were compared in rural Māori in an area remote from health services with urban Māori and non-Māori in a city well served with health services. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Hauora Manawa is a cohort study of diagnosed and p...

Ensuring the Teacher Education Students’ Knowledge through the Role Situations

In this article students’ success, their problems in the process of learning pedagogical knowledge, reasons of the low results, increasing of quality of knowledge with the help of role – situations at the pedagogical lessons are considered. There are different approaches to define the quality of future teachers’ pedagogical knowledge in scientific literature. During the investigation significan...

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening and follow-up investigations in Māori and non-Māori men in New Zealand

BACKGROUND Māori men in New Zealand have higher mortality from prostate cancer, despite having lower incidence rates. The objective of this study was to examine patterns of screening for prostate cancer in primary care and follow-up investigations after an elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) result in Māori and non-Māori men in order to help explain the observed differences in incidence an...

Volunteering predicts happiness among older Māori and non-Māori in the New Zealand health, work, and retirement longitudinal study.

OBJECTIVES This study sought to understand the relationship between volunteer activity and happiness among a sample of older adult New Zealanders. It specifically sought to determine if ethnicity (Māori vs. non-Māori) and economic living standards (ELS) functioned as moderators of the relationship between volunteering and happiness. METHOD Data were garnered from the 2008 administration of th...

Prostate - specific antigen ( PSA ) screening and follow - up investigations in Māori and non - 1 Māori men in New Zealand 2