Lecture 24- Pacific Peoples Health

Question 2

What are the factors of the Fonofale Model of Health (Samoan)?

Answer 2

family –> family is the base of the house, family is equally important to the individual when it comes to understanding and improving health
- culture (traditional values and rules and mixed)
- Pillars (physical, mental, spiritual, other)
- context (where the people are)
- time (historical context, what the countries current approach is)
- environment (immediate environment, climate change)

Question 3

What is the main ideas of the Te Vaka Atafaga (Tokelau Model)?

Answer 3

elder sits at the end of canoe steering

Question 4

What are the factors of the Seitapu Framework?

Answer 4

• family is key (needs to be included in the treatment and the process of health)
• language (need to understand the language a patient uses, and what they would like to use, understanding body language and greetings and terms)
• Tapu (sacred cultural and spiritual values)
• organisation