The New Zealand medical journal
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To investigate the views of medical students early in their clinical training and their clinical teachers with respect to Māori health teaching and learning. ⋯ The findings of this study raise concerns about the extent to which medical students are supported to achieve Hauora Māori learning outcomes. The consistency between medical student and clinical teacher findings points to systemic issues, and the solutions are likely to be multi-layered. At the institutional level, Māori health needs to be consistently presented as a legitimate and critical area of medical education. At the educational level, it is important that all teachers are supported to provide high quality teaching, learning and assessment of Hauora Māori across the curriculum.
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The study examined the influence of physical location on survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Firstly, OHCAs occurring in residential settings were compared to those occurring in public locations. Secondly, the residential OHCAs were classified according to socioeconomic status and the relationship between socioeconomic status and outcome from OHCA was examined. ⋯ Residential OHCA in the Wellington region has a much poorer prognosis than OHCA in public locations. There is no evidence to suggest that any socioeconomic group in the Wellington region is disadvantaged when a community and ambulance response is required for an OHCA.