iNZight Analytics develops new methods for examining health and social outcomes for Pacific populations in New Zealand

A recent issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal features new work by iNZight Analytics that creates new research methods to enable the examination of health and social outcomes for specific Pacific populations.

Health and social outcomes for Pacific populations are routinely reported on all Pacific people as a single group, which masks the differences between Pacific ethnic groups and does not produce information applicable to specific communities. This issue is important enough to have been the subject of the Ministry of Pacific Peoples first Long Term Insights Briefing in 2023, called "Improving Pacific data equity: Opportunities to enhance the future of Pacific wellbeing".

This work by Nicole Satherley and Andrew Sporle provides solutions to the issues raised by MPP, developing new methods for the use of linked health and administrative data to create robust information for specific Pacific populations. The article, "Capturing diversity in cancer incidence and outcomes among the New Zealand Pacific population using linked administrative data," uses the example of stomach cancer to demonstrate the diversity of cancer incidence and outcomes for specific Pacific populations in New Zealand.

This is the latest publication in iNZight Analytics' cancer research and research methods portfolios, which aim to improve methods for research and routine monitoring of health outcomes in New Zealand.