title: A Maori perspective on health and its politicization.
abstract: The establishment of primary health care centers in Maori communities has been justified in terms of a Maori cultural perspective on health. It is argued that this tradition-oriented Maori view on health has been constructed chiefly to substantiate the call for affirmative action to improve Maori health standards as well as to reacquire control of health delivery to Maori people.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: van Meijl
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D003469:Culture; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D011057:Politics; D011320:Primary Health Care