The impact of racism on the health of New Zealanders will go under the microscope thanks to an $800,000 research grant to Wellington researchers.
Using data from the New Zealand Health Survey, Drs James Stanley, Ricci Harris and Donna Cormack from the University of Otago, Wellington will spend the next three years working to determine whether racism leads to poorer health across all ethnic groups.
"It is important to understand how racism affects health so that we can better intervene to reduce its negative health effects," the researchers said in a jointly-written summary.
"We know that people of Maori, Pacific and Asian ethnicities experience the highest levels of racism."
[For more of this story, written by Rachel Thomas, go to http://www.stuff.co.nz/nationa...racked-in-800k-study]
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