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January 2006, Vol 96, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 8-9
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.077123

LETTER

BRAMLEY ET AL. RESPOND

Dale Bramley, MBChB, MPH, FAFPHM, Paul Hebert, PhD, Leah Tuzzio, MPH and Mark Chassin, MD, MPP, MPH

Dale Bramley is with the Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand. Paul Hebert and Mark Chassin are with the Department of Health Policy, Mount Sinai Medical School, New York, NY. Leah Tuzzio is with the Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Wash.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Dale Bramley, MBChB, MPH, FAFPHM, Waitemata District Health Board, DHB Board Office, Level 1, 15 Shea Terrace, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand (e-mail: dale.bramley@waitematadhb.govt.nz).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We are grateful for Baker’s letter and the opportunity to reply. In our article we focused on the relative (not absolute) size of health care disparities in New Zealand and the United States between the indigenous populations and the numerically dominant populations. Although Baker is correct in pointing out that infant mortality, male life expectancy, and homicide rates are worse in the United States, the disparities between Maoris and Europeans in New Zealand are larger than those between American Indians/Alaska Natives and US Whites for each of these health indicators. For homicide, we found a mortality risk ratio of 5.4 . . . [Full Text]






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