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. 2020 Aug;44(4):253-256.
doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.13015. Epub 2020 Jul 6.

COVID-19: we must not forget about Indigenous health and equity

Melissa McLeod  1 , Jason Gurney  1 , Ricci Harris  2 , Donna Cormack  2   3 , Paula King  2
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COVID-19: we must not forget about Indigenous health and equity

Melissa McLeod et al. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2020 Aug.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Age‐standardised rate ratios comparing rates of conditions relevant to COVID‐19 among all New Zealanders in 2014, between Indigenous Mãori (n=402,108) and Europeans (n=2,292,963). Prioritised ethnicity using the Statistics New Zealand prioritisation algorithm 26 was used to categorise ethnicity.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Age‐specific rates of (for example) congestive heart failure (left) and chronic pulmonary disease (right), for Mãori and European ethnic groups.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Age‐standardised rate ratios, comparing M3 multimorbidity score between Maori and Europeans. Categories are based on multimorbidity scores, which are calculated for each patient as the weighted sum of 60 individual morbidities. Increasing score (and category) relates to increasing multimorbidity burden.
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