Lay summary
Tāngata kāpō (blind, deafblind, low vision) Māori and their whānau report that health service provision is patchy, inadequate, hard-to-access and contains multiple administrative hoops and bureaucratic barriers. Likewise, available data for whānau kāpō Māori and their health service requirements is inadequate. This project will further develop an emerging research relationship with Kāpō Māori Aotearoa in order to determine key research priorities for tāngata kāpō Māori and their whānau over the next 5 years. Central to this exercise is ensuring tāngata kāpō Māori and tāngata whaikaha self-determination with regards to the direction of health service delivery, disability data, and related research. Relationship development and priority setting will result from a series of two wānanga with the research team, Kāpō Māori Aotearoa, and key end-user informants, and in conjunction with a literature review that collates previously published research on tāngata kāpō Māori and re-evaluates this through a kaupapa Māori lens.