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[IMJ On-Air] Race-neutral equations for classification of lung function

In recent years it’s been questioned whether population differences in lung function are driven more by ethnicity or exposure to modifiable factors. So, what effect would it have on the disease classification of an Australian patient cohort if diagnostic was done using race-neutral equations of lung function?

Ep126: Trying times for Māori medics

Medical schools in Aotearoa-New Zealand have turbocharged their intake of Māori and Pasifika students but these graduates have not trickled through to the RACP’s training programs in great numbers. We take a look at the culture of training environments and also the recent politicking over Māori self-governance.

Ep94: Facing up to racial bias

There is systematic variation in delivery of care to culturally diverse patients in all fields of medicine. This podcast highlights the subtle biases that affect clinical decision-making by practitioners and provision of services at an institutional level.

Ep53: Marrabinya—a hand outstretched

Marrabinya is a Wiradjuri word meaning “hand outstretched.” It’s the name of a service in the Western New South Wales Primary Health Network which financially supports Indigenous Australians to attend specialist consultaions. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples currently receive specialist medical care 40% less often than non-indigenous Australians. The Marrabinya staff explain how socioeconomic factors and institutional biases even in these settings can accumulate to prevent Aboriginal patients from receiving the care they need.

Ep31: Ngā Kaitiaki Hauora

‘Ngā Kaitiaki Hauora’ translates as ‘guardians of health’. This podcast emerged from a meeting near Auckland organised by the RACP’s Māori Health Committee in November 2017. Members of various medical colleges and institutions came together to share perspectives on the delivery of health care to New Zealand’s population of Māori and Pacific Islander people. This conversation comes in the context of the Wai 262 claim, which is forcing a re-examination of the Crown’s obligations to the Māori population under the Waitangi Treaty of 1840.