Adaptation of defended Pa or Maori village concept to retain important concepts for working with Māori - presented for PhD study feedback at the 23rd IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion in Rotorua 7-11 April 2019, cited below:
Webber, C. (2019). Whare Haumaru - Preventing Injury in Māori Homes (slideshow). 23rd IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, Rotorua, 7-11 April 2019. Published online at https://www.slideshare.net/ChrisWebber25/iuhpe-4apr19-whare-haumaru-injury-prevention-in-maori-homes
9. Some Questions
● What might I (or my visitor) see, hear feel as we progress through the gates.
● What posts/rails/treatments do fence layers need to be effective
● What checks and measures are taken(and reported) at what points?
Kia ora – Mauri Ora!
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Editor's Notes
Kia Hiwa Ra Kia Hiwa Ra - kei whakapurua koe ki te toto...traditional call to warn of danger. This research is part of that call - first some figures about injuries:
Māori adults (15-64yrs) are 50% more likely than non-Māori to die from unintentional injury (30% more likely to be hospitalised)
Maori children (0-14yrs) are 350% more likely than non-Maori to die from unintentional injury (110% more likely to be hospitalised)
“Maori are (250 times) more likely than others to sustain serious life-changing injuries, but (5-50%) less likely to access ACC services and around 35% less likely to be referred for elective surgery” ACC SOI 2018-22
So...one of the highest causes of unintentional injury is Falls which comprise nearly 40 percent of ACC claims - nearly half of these are from falls in homes (ACC, 2018). Around 45% of home injuries are from falls. So we’re looking at falls in homes - where people spend most time.
There were more than 45,000 home injury claims to ACC by Maori in 2017
1 in 3 were for children (0-14), 1 in 7 were for elderly (60+), active claims cost $55 million
ACC spent about $500 million in the past year for (425,000) injuries in homes (to June 2018)