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Injustice killing Kiwis on grand scale

By / 5 September 2008

Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale, the New Zealand Medical Journal says in an important new report.

“Widening geographic inequalities in death rates from ischaemic heart disease, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have marked differences between District Health Board regions, the journal said in an editorial.

”It based the warning on research published in the journal arguing that higher rates of ill health among poor people are leading to differences in a mortality rates between regions.

“The changing social and political environment disadvantaged poor people and areas, as well as Maori and Pacific people. Healthcare reforms which required people to pay more for their treatment led to poorer people making less use of health services, and unequal rationing of primary healthcare had affected some regions more than others”

Full story: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4681227a11.html

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