Publisher's Synopsis
Whaiora: Maori Health Development gives a historical account of the major changes in Maori health status and the reasons for those changes. Maori leadership in health and participation in the health services form part of a recurrent theme which links advances in health to advances in other aspects of Maori development.;Practitioners, students, and those interested in sociology, anthropology, history, Maori studies. Health professionals (medical and management staff, nurses) and health students (nursing, medical).