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Haydn Drake
@paramedickiwi.bsky.social
Kāi Tahu | 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Critical Care Paramedic 🚑 | Interested in Health equity, Airway, Resuscitation, Simulation, Human Factors & CRM.

Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿

#HealthEquity #IndigenousHealth #FOAMed #PHEM #FOAMpara #FOAMems #ToitūTeTiriti #IndigenousRights
"Failure by successive governments has left the South Island’s freshwater in a near disastrous state, the High Court has been told, in a case that could force the Crown to jointly manage water bodies with Ngāi Tahu."

newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/11/c...
February 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
"The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed that 2024 is the warmest year on record, based on six international datasets. The past ten years have all been in the Top Ten, in an extraordinary streak of record-breaking temperatures."

wmo.int/media/news/w...
January 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Wild 😲 Meta created fake AI accounts, and the AI bots lied in chats with human users. I would have thought there were already more than enough fake accounts and misinformation spread on these platforms 🤨

www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
January 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
December 6, 2024 at 1:38 AM
December 6, 2024 at 1:38 AM
"39 percent of Māori did not receive any disability support, including home support, and only 15 percent of Māori received support from a Māori provider."

www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/12/04/o...
December 6, 2024 at 1:38 AM
December 5, 2024 at 6:17 AM
I would just say to you... the TPB is not only completely unnecessary, it was entirely avoidable, and you had a choice to stop it going ahead, CEO Luxon. Good to see the PM under pressure to address the questions.

Video via Q+A m.youtube.com/watch?v=5lwE... (from 19:58)
December 1, 2024 at 6:26 AM
"A review of the Healthy Homes Initiative shows every dollar spent led to five dollars in health savings in the following five years, fewer hospitalisations and less school absenteeism."

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
November 29, 2024 at 10:21 AM
"Organisational factors such as culture, staffing, and retention of staff are crucial to patient safety"

Invest in personal and professional development and training programmes... Mentoring by experienced colleagues is necessary and novices need collegial support.

www.bmj.com/content/387/...
November 25, 2024 at 9:46 AM
The Weathering Hypothesis as an explanation for inequitable health outcomes based on ethnicity:

Chronic exposure to social and economic disadvantages can lead to accelerated physical health decline.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

📷 Juliet Young
November 24, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Lets not forget the haka by the Hurricanes Poua earlier this year, led by Leilani Perese 🖤🤍❤️ ✊🏼
November 24, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Toitū te mana o te whenua
Toitū te mana motuhake
Toitū te Tiriti o Waitangi

🖤🤍❤️ ✊🏼

[Credit to TNT Sports for the footage]
November 24, 2024 at 3:12 AM
November 23, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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November 23, 2024 at 12:22 PM
US workers during the covid-19 pandemic: uneven risks, inadequate protections, and predictable consequences | 🔓Open Access

www.bmj.com/content/384/...
November 23, 2024 at 12:22 PM
‘Flextension’: a new term to describe optimal head and neck positioning for airway management. 🔓Open Access

associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 23, 2024 at 10:53 AM
November 23, 2024 at 7:01 AM
November 23, 2024 at 7:01 AM
A list of people to be commended.
November 23, 2024 at 6:02 AM
New Zealand declares whooping cough epidemic

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
November 22, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
November 16, 2024 at 10:13 PM
The associate education minister simultaneously introduces the anti-Tiriti Bill and calls for a 'discussion', but gets upset about rangatahi getting involved and uses the ministry to try to limit their participation in a democratic society?

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
November 16, 2024 at 6:36 PM