title: New Zealand Maori women's health: status and self-help action in the 1980s.
abstract: The indigenous Maori population of New Zealand has experienced improvements in health in recent decades but vis-à-vis the non-Maori segment of the population, Maori, and Maori women in particular, continue to be disadvantaged. The situation became the focus of attention during the 1980s. Among efforts to improve it, a broad-based self-help campaign initiated by Maori leaders, organizations and health professionals emerged as important. This paper documents the current status of Maori women's health and examines health-related self-help activities on the part of the Maori Women's Welfare League, the leading Maori women's organization. The League has taken a leading role in the self-help campaign, declared a Decade of Health for 1985-1995, and adopted a program of action that could help to significantly improve the status of Maori health.
authors.affiliation: Division of Rehabilitation Education, Champaign, IL 61820.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Armstrong
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Armstrong
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012737:Sex Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D016387:Women's Health