Aotearoa’s diverse society, research shows
Māori, Pasifika and people from lower socioeconomic and rural backgrounds are “systemically underrepresented" in tertiary healthcare courses in Aotearoa, new research shows.
National cross-sectional study of the sociodemographic characteristics of Aotearoa New Zealand’s regulated health workforce pre-registration students: a mirror on society? was released in the British Medical Journal on Tuesday.
Researchers from University of Otago, AUT University and Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland analysed the data of around 20,000 students from 10 of the 23 tertiary organisations that provide health programmes.
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