Week Three Flashcards
Pasifika Population Stats in NZ
- Median age of 23.4 years
- 66.4% NZ Born
- 59.4% Identify with one ethnicity
Southwick et al. 2012 On Pasifika People Statistics
- Lower life expectancy
- Higher rates of non-communicable disease
- Lower mean income
- Live in the most deprived areas
- Highest unemployment rates
- Lowest homeownership rates
Pacific Health and Wellbeing Action Plan 2020-2025
Current Aspirations
- Pacific families have effective interactions with the health and disability system
- Pacific families have safe and comfortable social and physical environments.
- Pacific families are ‘ola manuia’ mentally, spiritually, culturally and
socially.
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What is Spirituality Like for Pacific People
- Central
- Christian
- Governs
Fonofale Model of Wellbeing (1995)
- Family
- Culture
- Physical
- Mental
- Spiritual
- Other
Te Vaka Atafaga Model 2000
- Environment
- Spirituality
- Physical Body
- Family
- Social
- Mind
Uloa - Supernatural and Spiritual Demenison of health
- What does it do?
- Emphasises the nature of the relationship between supernatural and spiritual dimensions of health.
- Requires community participation and signifies unity
Tufunga (Construction) Assessment Model
- Examples of Spiritual, Culture and Physical Mental
- Themes
- Spiritual: Possession by Spirits, Curse,
- Culture: Migration, Resources and services, social networks and Christian faith
- Physical/ Mental: Stress, drugs alcohol, Mental disorders biomedical terms, and language
Tufa Essential Skills
- Traditional Healers
- Priorities
- Services
- Traditional healer ?
- TH then doctor
- Doctor then traditional healer
- Hospital and mental health services
Tofu Essential Skills Defining Roles
- Traditional Healers
- Roles determined by resource and outcome
- Doctors, Nurses, Mental Health Workers
Six Key Aspects of Identity and
Wellbeing Study
- List Key Aspects
- Percived family wellbeing
- Perceived societal wellbeing
- Pacific connectedness and belonging
- Religious Centrality
- Group membership evaluation
- Cultural efficacy
Six Key Aspects of Identity and
Wellbeing Study
- Key Findings
- First validated tool for the Assessment of both Wellbeing and Identity.
-The measure indicates the strength of one’s ethnic identity as a Pacific person.
-That connectedness and belonging improved a sense of well-being.
Identity engagement and cultural Well-being were linked through religious practices. - Supports existing literature on the concept that positive attitudes towards one’s group indicate that an individual has an investment in their ethnic identity from which they derive
positive affect.
Highlights the importance that religion and spirituality have as important aspects in the formation and maintenance of individuals’ Pacific identities.
Maori and Pasifika Language and Identity and Wellbeing in New Zealand
- Higher levels of cultural identity in what group?
- Same level of well-being in what two groups?
- What moderates the relationship between ethnic identity centrality and self-esteem?
- Higher levels of cultural identity
in Maori and Pasifika than only English-speaking groups - Pasifika who only speaks English report similar levels of wellbeing
- Bilingualism moderated the relationship between ethnic identity centrality and self-esteem
- Bilingualism Stergthens the relationship between ethnic inde
Land Loss and Wellbeing for Maori Study
1. Land retention leads to what?
2. Greater access to what leads to better what
- Better wellbeing
- To land and culture including visiting a marae and connecting with whenua can support wellbeing
Key Colinisation Health Outcomes
1. In 2013 what group was more advantaged than Moari in all what indicators
2. 1769 what group life expectancy was better
3. Presently what group has a greater life expectancy of 7 years and is three times less likely to die from what?
- Non- Maori and socio-economic factors
- Maori life expectancy was better than European settlers
- Non- Maori do. Preventable disease
