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

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Institutional racism and access to health care 2024-2025

A Google Scholar search on racism and Māori and access to health limited to articles published in 2024 and 2025 includes the following:

Anderson, A., & Bertoli, H. (2025). Library evidence report: Impact of racism in health care on patient outcomes. Monash Health Library. https://monashhealth.intersearch.com.au/monashhealthjspui/bitstream/1/53674/1/Impact%20of%20racism%20in%20health%20care%20on%20outcomes%20-%20Evidence%20Report%20%20-%2020250509_watermark.pdf

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

Cunningham R, Imlach F, Haitana T, et al. Experiences of physical healthcare services in Māori and non-Māori with mental health and substance use conditions. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2024;58(7):591-602. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00048674241238958

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

Hepi, M., & Dallas-Katoa, W. (2024). Health Inequities for Māori within Primary Care Aotearoa New Zealand: Yersinia a case study. https://research.esr.cri.nz/articles/report/Health_Inequities_for_M_ori_within_Primary_Care_Aotearoa_New_Zealand_Yersinia_a_case_study/25413712/1/files/45049165.pdf

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