Hauora IV: Maori Health Standards 1990 to 2005 The launch for this important document is planned for the end of November 2007. The latest ‘Hauora’ book has up to date Mäori health data for all major causes of mortality and hospitalisations, and particular topics of interest including racism in health; mental health issues; Mäori and disability; and chapters dedicated to specific illnesses including cancer, respiratory and cardiovascular disease. I hope to bring you summaries of the chapters and their website links in future issues of Mäori Health Review.
INIHKD October 2007 Commentaries for this issue were written during breaks of the INIHKD conference held in Rotorua. It was a pleasure to catch up with friends and colleagues from around the motu and from overseas. For those of you who couldn’t make it, I plan to provide summaries and comments of some of the presentations at the conference including: • Applying ethical standards to front line service delivery in Canadian Indigenous communities • Tribal and urban American Indian/Alaska Native epidemiology centres • Indigenising community-based participatory research • Pukapuka Hauora: Mäori parents’ experience of managing a child with asthma • Manaaki Manawa; cardiac rehabilitation developed by Mäori for Mäori.
