Rainbow health in Aotearoa New Zealand – finally getting the attention it deserves?
Jeffery Adams![https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3052-5249](/media/client/orcid_16x16.png)
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1 SHORE & Whāriki Research Centre, Massey University, PO Box 6137, Auckland 1141, New Zealand.
2 Te Pūkenga, PO Box 19400, Hamilton 3244, New Zealand.
* Correspondence to: j.b.adams@massey.ac.nz
Journal of Primary Health Care 15(2) 186-189 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC22152
Published: 21 February 2023
© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)
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