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Pacific Health And Wellness Group Project Assignment

Assignment Task

Purpose:

To identify Pacific worldviews in relation to health and well-being. Understand the social, economic and cultural factors that contribute to health outcomes for Pacific Peoples living in New Zealand and identify how nurses could address health inequalities.

Learning outcomes:

  • Demonstrate teamwork to explore complex problems or specific issues encountered in Pacific communities
  • Demonstrate understanding of Pacific cultural competency and Pacific worldviews.
  • Health promotion reflects the Pacific Worldview.
  • Evidence-Based Best Practice Informed by Pacific Worldviews.
  • Critical thinking regarding determinants of health.

Assessment Content Includes:

  • Pacific communities living in New Zealand
  • Pacific cultural worldview of health and wellness
  • Health inequalities and health inequities
  • Social justice and determinants of health
  • Primary Health Care and Health Promotion
  • Pacific Health Strategies and publications

Disease- Cardiovascular disease in Tongan adults

The topics that I mainly focussed

  • Social determinants that impact on Pacific peoples health
  • Transition and migration of Tongans in New Zealand.
  • Systemic barriers for Tongan adults in New Zealand
  • Access to Healthcare for tongan adults in NZ.

Assignment Outline

Part A – Pacific People’s Health and Wellness Status in New Zealand

  • Provide an overview of Pacific people’s health and well-being in New Zealand. You can include, but it is not limited to, general information on current demographical data and statistics of Pacific ethnic groups living in New Zealand, disease prevalence, life expectancy, and socio-cultural determinants that impact Pacific peoples’ health and well-being.

Health Condition, contributing factors and support for Pacific people

For your chosen health condition.

  • Explain the health condition, i.e., disease, prevalence, and impact on Pacific populations. Consider in your explanation what contributing factors influence this health condition.  For example, Pacific peoples’ perspectives on health, the impact of westernisation, transition and migration, social and economic factors, systemic barriers, and access to healthcare. 
  • Identify ONE national or regional programme/initiative e.g., Pacific community health care services or National Services with online Pacific health education resources, that addresses this health and wellness issue for Pacific people.

Part B – Health Promotion Project

  • Develop a Health Promotion project that you will implement for 6 months. Brainstorm ideas that you think could address the health issue for a specific Pacific ethnic group, age and gender. Be specific about what your initiative is, why and/what the rationale, the goal and the expected outcome you want to achieve. Discuss how your Health Promotion project could be implemented.
  • Consider using the Fonofale model of health to develop your project from a Pacific worldview of health and how it could address your chosen health issue. 

For example: 

Health issue – Type 2 Diabetes. 

Ethnic group – Tongan.

Target group – 25-39 years old but also consider families.

Health promotion project – Type 2 Diabetes Prevention.

Rationale – The prevalence of diabetes is approximately two to three times higher in adults aged 25 – 39 years of Pacific ethnicity compared to those of European ethnicity (Ministry of Health New Zealand. Annual update of key results 2015/16: New Zealand Health Survey).

The goal – To raise the awareness of Type 2 Diabetes and encourage church members to cook meals and be active.

How – Work alongside two Tongan churches in Mangere to deliver monthly cooking classes, sports activities and incorporate healthy lifestyle messages to prevent Type 2 Diabetes.

Expected Outcome – 100% of attendees can cook a healthy diabetic meal, have become physically active and can demonstrate their knowledge and awareness of preventing or managing those with existing Type 2 Diabetes better.

The Fonofale model of health.

Culture – Form a project committee of church members aged 25-39 years who can give cultural advice and engage with church members in English and Tongan language.

Foundation – Include families.

Spiritual – Deliver the project as a church-based initiative.

Physical – Consider age-specific activities e.g. sports.

Mental – Include educational messages on healthy lifestyles and link messages to socio-cultural beliefs of health and wellbeing.

Other – Include church members 25-39 years, in planning cook classes and activities that are relevant and appropriate for them.

Environment/Time/Context – Run the project in the summertime, in the evenings and partner with other organisations that can provide sponsorship so that the programme is free.  Sponsorship for the ingredients for the cooking classes and free healthy food to give away to participants and their families.