National, 9th November 2021: A study was undertaken as part of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s Whānau Manaaki research program shows that evidence-based medical care is systematically advantaging and privileging outcomes for some women within Aotearoa New Zealand’s maternity system.
The programme, led by Professor Bev Lawton (Ngāti Porou), Director of Te Tātai Hauora o Hine Centre for Women’s Health Research explores the health care delivery system and its impact on the health of Māori women, their babies, and whānau. A paper in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, addressing the part of the programme called He Tamariki Kokoti Tau, explored preterm birth in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2010 and 2014.
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The study analysed births and foetal deaths with a gestational age of 24 weeks and overusing a Kaupapa Māori lens. The study found that European women had significantly lower rates of preterm (premature) delivery and lower rates of mortality (death) among preterm infants.
Lead author Dr Liza Edmonds from the University of Otago, says that this study positioned Māori as the norm and as the reference group in the analysis, as this strengths-based way of looking at and reporting data, counters the deficit discourse that often permeates research relating to Indigenous health and wellbeing. This showed the advantaged and privileged outcomes for European women and their infants. “This suggests that evidence-based clinical pathways that respond to risk factors for preterm delivery and mortality are not being delivered equitably—the current maternal health care system is privileging whiteness.”
Professor Lawton, the senior author of the study, says this study also highlights missing data. “In this study, Māori women and infants make up a significant portion of the group with missing data. This means their outcomes are uncounted. This matters. The advantages afforded to non-Māori may be underestimated. Data collection and recording across maternity care providers needs to be improved—our system is unsafe.”
Researchers contributing to this study include Dr. Nokuthaba Sibanda, Professor Stacie Geller, Francesca Storey, and Dr. Melanie Gibson-Helm from Te Tātai Hauora o Hine, and Dr. Fiona Cram, Associate Professor Sara Filoche, and Associate Professor Bridget Robson. Comparing these findings to similar research completed in 2004 shows the persisting and unchanged outcome figures within the current maternity system.
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International research suggests that inequity in maternal health care is a global issue. A call to action has recently been released by an international group of researchers, including Professor Lawton and Dr. Edmonds, which argues for the urgent need to provide Indigenous-led solutions to health inequities in maternal health care. “Change is needed and the status quo is not acceptable,” says Dr. Edmonds.
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