Ethics and Health Research: Decision Making in Aotearoa New Zealand

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hope Tupara
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Research Decision

scholarly journals The incorporation of Māori environmental values as part of the Ruamāhanga Whaitua Implementation Programme in the Wellington Region, Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Bryn Cal Hickson Rowden
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Environmental Decision Making ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Implementation Programme

<p>In recent years, there has been significant efforts to create frameworks in which Māori values are incorporated as part of environmental management processes in Aotearoa New Zealand(Forster, 2014; Harmsworth et al., 2016). This research explores the factors that influence the incorporation of Māori values at the local government level, and what barriers Māori values face to being incorporated in environmental management. This research focused on a case study of the Ruamāhanga Whaitua Committe Implementation Programme process in the Wellington region. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect information on the opinions of members of the Ruamāhanga Whaitua Committee. The interviews were analysed using a critical theory approach. The research found that there was a clear discrepancy between the values and behaviours expressed by some non-Māori members of the Committee. The result of such a discrepancy was that Māori values were not sufficiently part of environmental decision making. Such a discrepancy was a result of the political structures of the Regional Council’s Whaitua Implementation Programme process. The majority of the decision-making power was found to be situated ‘higher’ up in the organisation, outside of the Committee. Overall this research found that there are important opportunities to make sure iwi values are not only included, but form the basis of decisions.</p>

scholarly journals The New Zealand Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD): A new suite of indicators for social and health research in Aotearoa, New Zealand

PLoS ONE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. e0181260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel John Exeter ◽  
Jinfeng Zhao ◽  
Sue Crengle ◽  
Arier Lee ◽  
Michael Browne
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Multiple Deprivation ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Indices Of Multiple Deprivation

scholarly journals Co-Management in Theory and Practice: Co-Managing the Waipaˉ River

2021 ◽  
pp. 325-357
Author(s):  
Meg Parsons ◽  
Karen Fisher ◽  
Roa Petra Crease
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
River Catchment ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Equitable Sharing ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Formal Recognition

AbstractIn Aotearoa New Zealand, co-management initiatives are increasingly commonplace and are intended to improve sustainable management of environments as well as foster more equitable sharing of power between the settler-state and Indigenous Māori iwi (tribes). In this chapter we examine one such co-management arrangement that recognises and includes Ngāti Maniapoto iwi in decision-making about their ancestral river (the upper section of the Waipā River Catchment) and whether the implementation of initiative translated into tangible benefits for the iwi. Our research findings highlight how co-management agreement is perceived as overwhelming positive by both government and Ngāti Maniapoto representatives. However iwi note that they still face substantive barriers to achieving environmental justice (including the lack of formal recognition of their authority and power, and limited resourcing).

scholarly journals The incorporation of Māori environmental values as part of the Ruamāhanga Whaitua Implementation Programme in the Wellington Region, Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Bryn Cal Hickson Rowden
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Environmental Decision Making ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Implementation Programme

<p>In recent years, there has been significant efforts to create frameworks in which Māori values are incorporated as part of environmental management processes in Aotearoa New Zealand(Forster, 2014; Harmsworth et al., 2016). This research explores the factors that influence the incorporation of Māori values at the local government level, and what barriers Māori values face to being incorporated in environmental management. This research focused on a case study of the Ruamāhanga Whaitua Committe Implementation Programme process in the Wellington region. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect information on the opinions of members of the Ruamāhanga Whaitua Committee. The interviews were analysed using a critical theory approach. The research found that there was a clear discrepancy between the values and behaviours expressed by some non-Māori members of the Committee. The result of such a discrepancy was that Māori values were not sufficiently part of environmental decision making. Such a discrepancy was a result of the political structures of the Regional Council’s Whaitua Implementation Programme process. The majority of the decision-making power was found to be situated ‘higher’ up in the organisation, outside of the Committee. Overall this research found that there are important opportunities to make sure iwi values are not only included, but form the basis of decisions.</p>

scholarly journals Ethnic bias amongst medical students in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Findings from the Bias and Decision Making in Medicine (BDMM) study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. e0201168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Cormack ◽  
Ricci Harris ◽  
James Stanley ◽  
Cameron Lacey ◽  
Rhys Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Ethnic Bias ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

New Views on a ‘Stuck’ Issue: Communicating about Childhood Immunisation in Aotearoa New Zealand

2014 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elspeth Tilley ◽  
Niki Murray ◽  
Bronwyn Watson ◽  
Margie Comrie
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Childhood Immunisation ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article explores attitudes towards immunisation and immunisation communication materials among parents and caregivers currently facing immunisation decisions in Aotearoa New Zealand. The research aimed to discover, from an open-ended qualitative investigation, new ways to conceptualise and explain immunisation decision-making, and identify participants' own views on approaches worth trialling as ways to increase immunisation rates. The research used communication artefacts as talking points, and an action research process to modify these to reflect participants' design suggestions, but was primarily exploratory. It started a broad conversation with participants about their decision-making influences rather than being designed to test any particular attributes of the immunisation communication process. From a qualitative analysis of transcripts of focus-group and in-depth interviews with 107 immunisation decision-makers, themes were drawn. Applying an emic process enabled identification of participants' own ideas that have now broadened the range of possible approaches currently being considered for immunisation communication in Aotearoa New Zealand. Given that immunisation decline is a problem internationally, these participant-driven ideas may also be worth testing in other contexts.

Young people with a variation in sex characteristics in Aotearoa/New Zealand: identity, activism and healthcare decision-making

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Denise M. Steers ◽  
Georgia L. Andrews ◽  
Esko J. Wiltshire ◽  
Angela J. Ballantyne ◽  
Sunny C. Collings ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sex Characteristics ◽  
Healthcare Decision ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Healthcare Decision Making

scholarly journals Driving Through the East

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
Elyjana Roach
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
Landscape Architect ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Decision Making Processes

This intervention asks how the people of Porirua can feel empowered and included in the decision-making processes that will shape the future of their city. I draw on my experiences as a life-long resident, activist, artist, architect, landscape architect, and urban designer in Porirua to find answers. I have found that young Pasifika are very concerned about whether their cultural values will be represented in housing and development in Porirua. This speaks to an issue facing the country as whole: while the Pasifika population continues to grow in size and importance in Aotearoa New Zealand, they are subject to flawed cultural assumptions, and are frequently overlooked or misunderstood in decision-making processes that will have profound impacts upon their future. There is room for more talanoa between Pasifika in Aotearoa New Zealand, and between Pasifika and the wider population. It is only when architects and planners expand their cultural kete that they will provide suitable housing and neighbourhoods for Pasifika.

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