A new study has revealed Māori children with asthma are hospitalised at twice the rate of non-Māori children.
The study, by the Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland, had documented from 2010 to 2019 that children living in high-deprivation areas were on average admitted to hospital 2.8 times higher than those in least-deprived areas.
It's also estimated a combined cost of asthma hospitalisations and prescriptions to be $165 million.
A larger proportion of Māori children is said to have had an asthma readmission within 90 days of their first admission and researcher Professor Justin O'Sullivan said it's because they aren't receiving primary care that is consistent with prevention.