RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Indigenous Health Leadership: A Kaupapa MāoriPerspective from Aotearoa – New Zealand
JF BMJ Leader
JO BMJ Leader
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 83
OP 86
DO 10.1136/leader-2021-000445
VO 5
IS 2
A1 Divyansh Panesar
A1 Jamie-Lee Rahiri
A1 Jonathan Koea
YR 2021
UL http://bmjleader.bmj.com/content/5/2/83.abstract
AB This article describes the challenge of addressing indigenous health leadership to reduce ethnic disparity in modern healthcare. The indigenous New Zealand population, Māori, are disadvantaged across many health domains including the socioeconomic determinants of health. The Treaty of Waitangi, considered New Zealand’s founding document, outlines Māori autonomy and leadership, and can be applied to a model of health equity. Leadership frameworks in this sense must incorporate ethical and servant leadership styles across a shared, distributive leadership model to develop safe and equitable health environments where Indigenous ways of being and knowing are not subjugated. This is a shift from traditional hierarchical paradigms of the past and acknowledges Māori as having the autonomy to lead and maintain equitable health outcomes.