Frequently Asked Questions

I am looking for up-to-date articles on the impact of institutional racism on people accessing health. Can you help?

 

1. You can try a search in Library Search on "institutional racism" and health and zealand or australia and apply filters for peer-reviewed articles and date range in the last 10 years.

2. You can also try a search in Library Search on unconscious bias and nursing which finds a range of articles including the following for a New Zealand perspective

3. You can also try an AI assisted search using Research Assistant in Library Search

This provides 5 articles and an overview answering your research question  Ie.g. I​MPORTANT - do not copy information directly from the overview as it is AI generated and may not be correct.  Check each article to see if the information you need is actually in it and then paraphrase directly from those articles not the overview.

4. You can also try a Google Scholar search on what is the impact of institutional racism on health.. and apply a date range filter for up to date articles.

Here are a range of articles found using the above techniques.

Came, H., Aspin, C., Coupe, N., & McCreanor, T. (2024). Pae ora (disestablishment of Māori health authority) amendment Act 2024: further Crown breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The New Zealand Medical Journal (Online), 137(1595), 94-98. https://nzmj.org.nz/media/pages/journal/vol-137-no-1595/e7546587fe-1715896953/nzmjv137i1595_17may2024.pdf#page=94

Came, H., Shepherd, T., McCreanor, T., & Thorburn, D. (2025). Linguistic enablers of Pākehā racism: Excuses from the health sector in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Critical Public Health, 2(1), 40-48. https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph/article/download/78565/58051

Clendon, J. (2020), Talking about unconscious bias. Nursing New Zealand. 26(10), 32-33.

Harris, R., Cormack, D., Waa, A., Edwards, R., & Stanley, J. (2024). The impact of racism on subsequent healthcare use and experiences for adult New Zealanders: a prospective cohort study. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 136. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17603-6

Harris, R., Li, C., Stanley, J., King, P. T., Priest, N., Curtis, E., Ameratunga, S., Sorensen, D., Tibble, F., Tewhaiti-Smith, J., Thatcher, P., Araroa, R., Pihema, S., Lee-Kirk, S., King, S. J. R., Urlich, T., Livingstone, N.-Z., Kamau Brady, S., Matehe, C., & Paine, S.-J. (2024). Racism and Health Among Aotearoa New Zealand Young People Aged 15–24 years: Analysis of Multiple National Surveys. Journal of Adolescent Health, 75(3), 416-425. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.04.021

Loring, B., & Curtis, E. (2024). How racism plays out in contemporary public health practice (commentary). Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, 48(4), 100167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100167

Pitama, S., Haitana, T., Patu, M., Robson, B., Harris, R., McKerchar, C., Clark, T., & Crengle, S. (2024). Toitū Te Tiriti. The New Zealand Medical Journal (Online), 137(1589), 7-11. https://nzmj.org.nz/media/pages/journal/vol-137-no-1589/f99d08999a-1706831825/nzmjv137i1589_2feb2024.pdf#page=7

Sheridan, N., Jansen, R. M., Harwood, M., Love, T., & Kenealy, T. (2024). Hauora Māori–Māori health: a right to equal outcomes in primary care. International journal for equity in health, 23(1), 42. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-02071-6

Sumibcay, J. R. C. (2024). Examining structural racism as the fundamental cause of health inequities among the Indigenous Māori, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Island peoples in the US and Aotearoa New Zealand: Perspectives from key informant community leaders. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, 5, 100379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100379

Uerata, L., Scott, N., Tamatea, J., Jones, A., Atatoa Carr, P., Chepulis, L., Paul, R., Simon, H., & Lawrenson, R. (2025). Understanding the determinants of health for Māori living with chronic disease in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Journal of Primary Health Care. https://connectsci.au/hc/article/doi/10.1071/HC25064/230063/Understanding-the-determinants-of-health-for-Maori?searchresult=1

Veenstra, N., Kewene, F., Morgaine, K., & Crengle, S. (2024). What we do matters: Supporting anti-racism and decolonisation of public health teaching and practice through the development of Māori public health competencies. Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, 48(2), 100132. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100132

Wiapo, C., Adams, S., Komene, E., Davis, J., & Clark, T. (2024). An integrative review of racism in nursing to inform anti‐racist nursing praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of clinical nursing, 33(8), 2936-2948. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.17205