Therefore, providing culturally appropriate services to people plays an important role for healthcare professionals; The main reason is that culturally competent services are inextricably linked to client health. According to Oda and Rameka (2012), in the 1980s, Māori faced racial discrimination and this is linked to higher rates of illness among Māori, such as mental illness, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cancer, mortality and health risk behaviors such as tobacco and alcohol consumption. This is the result of an unfair health service. In research (Oda & Rameka, 2012), people are more likely to try not to seek medical attention when they experience discrimination, making their mortality higher than that of other non-Māori. Another factor could be that Māori are not incapable of accessing health information and they had low health literacy at that time and were not able to understand the different diseases and the lack of health education to live with a healthy lifestyle (Oda and Rameka, 2012). A classic example can be seen in tobacco and alcohol consumption. At the time, people did not know the repercussions of tobacco and alcohol use, but if they could access the information, they would understand the consequences of tobacco and alcohol use.