Te Piringa: Whānau-centred Māori and Pacific Led Primary Health Care Case Studies
Project Background
The primary objective of the Research Project was to build on the achievements of Whānau Ora to improve the effectiveness of health services and care for Māori and Pacific whānau. Central to this was strengthening the whānau-centred approach—a culturally grounded, holistic model that focuses on whānau wellbeing and addresses individual needs within a whānau context (p. 6). Te Puni Kōkiri engaged three research groups—Moana Research, Ihi Research and FEM 2006 Ltd—to undertake the project between 2019 and 2020 and to produce four research components: a literature scan, six case studies, a rubric, and a synthesis report.
This document presents six case studies completed by the research teams: Ihi Research (Te Waipounamu), FEM Research (Te Ika-a-Māui) and Moana Research (Pacific). The case studies were carried out between November 2019 and February 2020. Researchers worked alongside providers to describe how they implemented whānau-centred, Māori and Pacific-led primary health care and to identify the mechanisms required to commission this work.
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