Population Health

Question 1

What is the definition of epidemiology?

Answer 1

The study of disease in groups of people and why. Information/ Statistics are used to plan and evaluate strategies to prevent illness

Question 2

What is person centered care

Answer 2

A way of thinking and doing things for people who are using health care services- To treat them as equal partners in planning, developing and monitoring care to make sure it meets their needs.

Question 3

Critical thinking: What does RED stand for?

Answer 3

R- Recognize assumptions
E- Evaluating arguments
D- Drawing a conclusion

Question 4

The Homelessness reading is an example of which narrative?

Answer 4

Restitution

Question 5

What is a chaos narrative? and definition

Answer 5

And then this happened…

Someone who has become overwhelmed with illness and has no sense of recovering from pain and suffering

Question 6

What is a quest narrative and give an example

Answer 6

A Journey with a beginning and illness and ending- Pilgrimage journey (deafness)

Question 7

What is a testimonial narrative?

Answer 7

“a shared experience throughout treatment or medicines”

Question 8

What is a contested diagnoses?

Answer 8

1. You consider yourself ill but others disagree (more than 2)
2. Other think you have a disease but you consider your wellbeing normal (living with mental illness or deafness- normal for you)

Question 9

What is the language of distress?

Answer 9

Language of distress is a moment between becoming distressed or having an impaired well being  acknowledging the illness and distress. The expression can be both psyiological or psychological.

Question 10

What is intersectionality?

Answer 10

is when social aspects such as gender, age, race, economic status, and sexuality are discriminated or disadvantaged/ advantaged within the health system.

Question 11

What is biopower?

Answer 11

is the way that the government, politics or yourself have an influence on health needs.

Question 12

What does CAM stand for? and give an example

Answer 12

Complementary and alternative medicine- chinese medicine

Question 13

How do gender roles affect our health?

Answer 13

Gender stereotypes- Males (Manliness) Women (Responsible for family first)

Question 14

What is the metaphor of pilgrimage?

Answer 14

Economic and political view- Professionals trying to solve or force treatment on this ‘tragedy’
Cultural and spiritual view- learning to adjust to a new way of life and living

Question 15

What are the 3 steps of alienation?

Answer 15

1. Becoming alienated from yourself- Hatred towards yourself.
2. Alienated/ distanced from others ruining your social life and public interaction
3. Makes strangers out of those you know well

Question 16

What was samuel marsden’s role in NZ?

Answer 16

Establishment of the christian church

Question 17

What was William Hobsons role in NZ?

Answer 17

Drafted the Treaty of Waitangi and created the NZ government based off the Westminster structure.

Question 18

What was George Grays influence on NZ?

Answer 18

1. Politician- called to settle issues within the north island 2. Organises the NZ parliment without Māori representation 3. Imprisions Māori without trial 4. Takes the land of Taranaki because of war

Question 19

When did George gray visit NZ?

Answer 19

1845 & 1853

Question 20

When was the public works act established? and what was the role of this policy?

Answer 20

1981- Māori land could be forcefully taken from Māori in order to make roads, railways and airports. The crown failed to uphold their side of the bargain- if land wasn’t needed they’d return it.

Question 21

when was the Native representation act established? and why?

Answer 21

(1867) 4 Māori seats in parliment due to the Ratana movement

Question 22

When was the Hunn report established and why?

Answer 22

1960- Encouraged Māori to give up lands and integration (assimilation)

Question 23

What is pepper potting?

Answer 23

Māori scattered within a Pakeha dominant area

Question 24

Name 2 Māori doctors

Answer 24

Te Rangi Hiroa

Maui Pomare

Question 25

Eruera Tirikatene profession is what?

Answer 25

Politician

Question 26

Who is David Asbul and what was his influence on NZ?

Answer 26

David Asubel (professor of psychology) visits New Zealand in 1958-59- to observe the poor relationship between Māori and Pākeha

Question 27

Name the 4 concepts of Te Whare Tapa Wha

Answer 27

Taha Hinengaro
Taha Whanau
Taha wairua
Taha Tinana

Question 28

Oceania is made up of 3 geographic locations, name all 3 and one example of each.

Answer 28

Micronesia- Kiribati, Nauru, Marshall Island, Palau
Melanesia- Vanuatu, Fiji, Papa New Guinea, Solomon Islands
Polynesia- Samoa, Tonga, NZ, Hawaii, Easter Island

Question 29

What is utopia?

Answer 29

a place which is viewed as perfect

Question 30

What is dystopia?

Answer 30

a place which experiences great suffering and injustice (

Question 31

Name 5 reasons for Pacific migration?

Answer 31

war, slavery and religion, cyclones, earthquakes, rising sea level, new resources and trades, need for independence

Question 32

In 1914-1919 which diease affected the whole of Samoa causing mass death?

Answer 32

Spanish influenza

Question 33

What is diaspora?

Answer 33

a way for those who have migrated from their homelands identify themselves with others around the globe.

Question 34

Name the 5 pacific values that are important in a Pacific world view?

Answer 34

1. Gerontocracy- respect for elders
2. Spirituality
3. Family
4. Reciprocity- Working together to give back
5. Respect

Question 35

Name 5 reasons pacific health is poor

Answer 35

• Socio-economic status
• Education/ Health literacy
• Employment/ Income
• Housing conditions
• High fertility rate- no income, poor education, more housing required to cater for large families, small living spaces.
• Cultural pressure to support family back home
• Socio-economic discrimination

Question 36

What are common outcomes of poor pacific health?

Answer 36

Diabetes, Rheumatic Heart Disease, Breast Cancer, Respiratory Disease, injuries

Question 37

What are the 6 frames of the fonofale model?

Answer 37

Culture, family, spiritual, mental, physical and other

Question 38

Name the 5 values in the fonua model?

Answer 38

Individual (Spirit), family(mental), local(physical), national(community) global(environment)