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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of New Zealand2025

Te Oranga Pūkahukahu research programme: intentional steps towards a national equity-focused lung cancer screening programme in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Kate Parker, Karen Bartholomew, Peter Sandiford, Sue Crengle

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kate ParkerHealth New Zealand-Te Whatu Ora, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2574-0983
Karen BartholomewHealth New Zealand-Te Whatu Ora, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1517-2134
Peter SandifordHealth New Zealand-Te Whatu Ora, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1823-2462
Sue CrengleNgāi Tahu Māori Health Research Unit, University of Otago, Otago, New Zealand.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Screening of at-risk, asymptomatic people can significantly reduce mortality from lung cancer. However, evidence about how to optimise lung cancer screening for specific populations, including Aotearoa New Zealand's Indigenous Māori, who experience disproportionately higher rates of lung cancer, is needed to ensure that a future lung screening programme in Aotearoa New Zealand is equitable. Te Oranga Pūkahukahu is a world-first, Indigenous-led research programme designed intentionally to provide evidence to inform a national screening programme that will benefit Māori. The research programme has already provided policy-relevant information on key parameters relevant to the future design of an equitable screening service. This paper outlines the work completed to date, including the rationale and the strategies employed by the research group to advance the work and discusses the potential for a future national lung cancer screening programme and the further work required to make this happen.

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equity interventionslung cancerLung cancer screeningMāori healthMāori health inequities

Identifiers

PMID40718036
PMCPMC12288174

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