Usual health practitioners (15+ years)

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Usual health practitioners (15+ years)

Table 33: Primary health service utilisation indicators

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Indicator	Māori			non-Māori
Indicator	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Having a usual health practitioner (self-reported), 15+ years, percent^{1, 2}	90.4 (88.2–92.6)	94.3 (93.0–95.6)	92.5 (91.3–93.7)	92.4 (91.5–93.2)	95.5 (94.8–96.2)	94.0 (93.4–94.5)
Among people with a usual health practitioner – practitioner is a GP (self-reported), 15+ years, percent^{1, 2}	97.1 (95.9–98.2)	97.1 (95.9–98.4)	97.1 (96.2–97.9)	97.0 (96.2–97.8)	97.3 (96.6–98.0)	97.1 (96.6–97.7)

Source: 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey

Notes:

Age standardised to 2001 Census total Māori population.
Prioritised Māori ethnic group – see ‘Ngā Tapuae me ngā Raraunga: Methods and Data Sources' for further information.

Māori adults were equally as likely as non-Māori adults to report having a usual health practitioner (RR 0.98, CI 0.97–1.00). Among those with a usual health practitioner, for both Māori and non-Māori, the most common type was a GP. Other types of health practitioner are not presented here because the numbers of people with other usual health practitioners were too small to produce reliable estimates.

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