Rata Elizabeth, Zubaran Carlos
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
J Med Philos. 2016 Apr;41(2):192-209. doi: 10.1093/jmp/jhv065. Epub 2016 Feb 18.
The ethnic or "racial" classification of Maori and non-Maori is a pivotal feature of New Zealand's health system and affects government policy and professional practice within the context of Treaty of Waitangi "partnership" politics. Although intended to empower Maori, ethnic categorization can have unintended and negative consequences by ignoring the causality of material forces in social phenomena. The authors begin by showing how the use of ethnic categories in health policy is justified by the Treaty of Waitangi partnership policies. This provides the context for the argument made in the manuscript that an understanding of the social experience of ethnicity within the complex interaction of sociocultural factors such as socioeconomic location and lifestyle is more useful than using the political construct of ethnic categories in explaining the persistence of low health status for a section of the Maori population.
毛利人和非毛利人的种族或“族裔”分类是新西兰卫生系统的一个关键特征，并且在《怀唐伊条约》“伙伴关系”政治的背景下影响着政府政策和专业实践。尽管旨在赋予毛利人权力，但种族分类可能会因忽视社会现象中物质力量的因果关系而产生意想不到的负面后果。作者首先展示了《怀唐伊条约》伙伴关系政策如何为卫生政策中种族类别的使用提供正当理由。这为手稿中的论点提供了背景，即在社会经济地位和生活方式等社会文化因素的复杂相互作用中理解种族的社会经历，比使用种族类别的政治构建来解释一部分毛利人群体健康状况低下的持续存在更有用。
