PURPOSE To compare differences in outcome between Maori and Caucasian patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty for osteoarthritis. METHODS 45 men and 45 women aged 43 to 87 years who underwent total hip (n=54) or total knee (n=36) arthroplasties by a single surgeon and were followed up for at least one year were prospectively studied. Patients were classified according to American Society...

AIMS To review whether current New Zealand (NZ) medical student selection policies are likely to result in specialists prepared to work in areas of greatest health need in the future. METHOD This paper describes approaches used to select medical students, with some details about NZ medical student cohorts. It then discusses the evidence linking selection and career choice. RESULTS AND CONCL...

AIM To examine dental service use and dental care receipt by a range of factors among Maori, Pacific and New Zealand European or Other children in New Zealand. METHODS Data were from the 2002 National Children's Nutrition Survey. Bivariate associations were calculated between three dental service use and dental care receipt measures, and 48 personal characteristics in five domains. Analyses t...

In chapter I, we advanced the idea that an indefinite noun phrase can be semantically combined as an argument to a predicate by two different modes of composition: Restrict and Specify. Restrict composes the property supplied by the indefinite with the predicate, limiting the semantic domain of the predicate but leaving it unsaturated. Specify shifts the property to an individual, which then sa...

Cultural safety education is a concept unique to nursing in New Zealand. It involves teaching nursing students to recognize and understand the dynamics of cultural, personal, and professional power and how these shape nursing and health care relationships. This article describes the findings of a research study on the experience of teaching cultural safety. As a teacher of cultural safety, the ...

Jeremy Waldron argues that claims to reparation for historic injustices can be superseded by the demands of justice in present. For example, justified Maori resulting from wrongful appropriation their land European settlers may claim a just distribution resources possessed world’s existing inhabitants. However, if we distinguish between reparative and restitutive claims, see while restitution c...