Maori Health and Government Policy

This book maps official endeavours to meet Māori health needs during the first hundred years of European settlement in New Zealand.

Focusing on policy initiative rather than health outcomes, Maori Health and Government Policy explores four major themes: the administration and funding of Māori health,; the association between Māori and hospitals; the subsidised medical officers who provided primary health care; and infection control and the sanitary measures. Other subjects include the role of missionary medicine in the 1840s and 1850s and Māori health research.