Lay summary
This study will document the impact of COVID-19 pandemic management on Māori:non-Māori inequities in health at both a nation-wide and regional level. Health experts are concerned that the health system’s response to the pandemic may have exacerbated existing non-COVID-19 inequities. This relates to disruptions to ‘business as usual’ healthcare, how the healthcare system ‘re-started’ following the first outbreak, and community concerns in seeking healthcare. M2M is framed from a kaupapa Māori positioning and includes a quantitative analysis of national data sets ‘pre’ and ‘through’ COVID-19. M2M will examine categories of access to healthcare, quality of healthcare and health outcomes. Findings are expected to inform health policy and practice interventions to support pro-equity and Treaty of Waitangi-compliant approaches to future pandemic management within New Zealand.