Aim: To review some common patterns of race talk in a sample of submissions made to the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill. This bill proposed a structural reform of the health system in Aotearoa New Zealand to address long-standing health inequities experienced by Māori, the Indigenous peoples, and other priority populations.
Method: In a sample of 3,000 individual submissions made in late 2021, we found 2,536 explicit references to race.
Racial discrimination has been linked to allostatic load (i.e., cumulative biological stress) among African American women.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF