scholarly journals Hb I-Toulouse in association with homozygosity for the α3.7 deletion in a Pacific Island woman

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverley Pullon
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Current Case ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
Pacific Population ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
The World ◽  
Chronic Hemolytic Anemia

Only four cases of Hb I-Toulouse have been reported to date. Current literature associates Hb I-Toulouse in the heterozygote with a mild chronic hemolytic anemia. The variant is mildly unstable with a tendency to form metHb. The quantity of the variant in heterozygotes has been reported as varying between 33 to 40%. This report confirms the finding from a single case, that a reduced percentage of Hb IToulouse along with microcytosis can be attributed to the co-inheritance of an abnormal α globin genotype. This current case was found in a woman of Pacific People ethnicity residing in New Zealand. There is a high prevalence of α thalassemia in this ethnic group and New Zealand has the highest Pacific population in the world. Therefore, if a reduced percentage of Hb I-Toulouse is found with microcytosis and normal iron studies, co-inheritance with α thalassemia should be considered.

scholarly journals 'The Bitter Sweetness of the Space Between': Creative Reflections of Pasifika Ethnic Mixedness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Emily Fatu
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Mixed Ancestry ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
Pacific Population ◽  
Pacific Studies ◽  
Visual Artist

<p>This Master of Arts thesis investigates and draws conclusions regarding how creative arts present accommodating spaces for articulating and understanding cultural mixedness amongst Pacific populations in New Zealand. New Zealand is home to an expanding Pacific population; statistics identify a growing number of these Pacific people who are multi-ethnic, and who are claiming their mixedness in official census data. As Pacific populations have grown, Pacific artists have risen to national prominence in visual, literary and performing arts. Many of these artists have themselves been of mixed ancestry. This thesis examines the work of three female New Zealand artists of mixed Samoan-English or Samoan-Indian descent, asking, “How do these artists and their work express their cultural mixedness?” Discussion centres on mixed media visual artist Niki Hastings-McFall, who is of English and Samoan descent; spoken word poet Grace Taylor, also of English and Samoan descent; and musical performer Aaradhna Patel, who is of Indian and Samoan descent. Placing both the creative work and public commentary of these three artists at its centre, this thesis explores how these artists publicly identify with their Samoan heritage as well as their other heritage(s); how they use their art as a platform for identity articulation; and how creative arts provide flexible and important spaces for self-expression. The thesis draws its theoretical underpinnings from Pacific studies, art history, transnational cultural studies and postcolonial studies, and utilizes Samoan and Tongan conceptions of vā as a key analytic tool.</p>

scholarly journals The Pacific primary health care workforce in New Zealand: What are the needs?

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Ape-Esera ◽  
Vili Nosa ◽  
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Care Workforce ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Pacific Population ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Impact

AIM: To scope future needs of the NZ Pacific primary care workforce. METHOD: Semi-structured interviews with key informants including Pacific primary care workers in both Pacific and mainstream primary health care organisations and managers at funding, policy and strategy levels. Qualitative thematic analysis using general inductive approach. RESULTS: Thirteen stakeholders interviewed (four males, nine females) in 2006. Included both NZ- and Island-born people of Samoan, Tongan, Niuean, Fijian and NZ European ethnicities; age 20–65 years. Occupations included general practitioner, practice nurse, community worker, Ministry of Health official and manager representing mainstream and Pacific-specific organisations. Key themes were significant differences in attributes, needs and values between ‘traditional’ and contemporary Pacific people; issues regarding recruitment and retention of Pacific people into the primary health care workforce; importance of cultural appropriateness for Pacific populations utilising mainstream and Pacific-specific primary care services and both advantages and disadvantages of ‘Pacific for Pacific’ services. CONCLUSION: Interviews demonstrated heterogeneity of Pacific population regarding ethnicity, age, duration of NZ residence and degree of immersion in their culture and language. Higher rates of mental disorder amongst NZ-born Pacific signpost urgent need to address the impact of Western values on NZ-born Pacific youth. Pacific population growth means increasing demands on health services with Pacific worker shortages across all primary health care occupations. However it is not possible for all Pacific people to be treated by Pacific organisations and/or by Pacific health workers and services should be culturally competent regardless of ethnicity of providers. KEYWORDS: Pacific Islands, New Zealand, manpower, ethnic groups, Oceanic Ancestry Group, primary health care

scholarly journals The Diet Quality and Nutrition Inadequacy of Pre-Frail Older Adults in New Zealand

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 2384
Author(s):  
Esther Tay ◽  
Daniel Barnett ◽  
Evelingi Leilua ◽  
Ngaire Kerse ◽  
Maisie Rowland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Diet Quality ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Dietary Interventions ◽  
Frail Older Adults ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
Dietary Adequacy ◽  
High Prevalence

This study aimed to describe the diet quality of pre-frail community-dwelling older adults to extend the evidence of nutrition in frailty prevention. Pre-frailty, the transition state between a robust state and frailty, was ascertained using the FRAIL scale. Socio-demographic, health status, and 24-h dietary recalls were collected from 465 community-dwelling adults aged 75+ (60 years for Māori and Pacific people) across New Zealand. Diet quality was ascertained with the Diet Quality Index-International (DQI-I). Participants (median (IQR) age 80 (77–84), 59% female) had a moderately healthful diet, DQI-I score: 60.3 (54.0–64.7). Women scored slightly higher than men (p = 0.042). DQI-I components identified better dietary variety in men (p = 0.044), and dietary moderation in women (p = 0.002); both sexes performed equally well in dietary adequacy and poorly in dietary balance scores (73% and 47% of maximum scores, respectively). Low energy 20.3 (15.4–25.3) kcal/kg body weight (BW) and protein intakes 0.8 (0.6–1.0) g/kg BW were coupled with a high prevalence of mineral inadequacies: calcium (86%), magnesium (68%), selenium (79%), and zinc (men 82%). In conclusion, the diet quality of pre-frail older adults was moderately high in variety and adequacy but poor in moderation and balance. Our findings support targeted dietary interventions to ameliorate frailty.

In conversation with Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-242
Author(s):  
Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa ◽  
Sarina Pearson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Becoming a feature film director is a privilege available to only a handful of people, no matter where in the world they live. In Oceania, access to filmmaking is arguably more constrained because the market conditions under which commercial films are produced do not favour small, geographically dispersed and linguistically distinct communities. Opportunities to make publicly funded, critically acclaimed Pacific films in metropolitan centres like Aotearoa New Zealand are vanishingly small. Often when they are made, these ‘art house’ Pacific films primarily appeal to audiences outside of the communities in which they are set. Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa has challenged this status quo by pioneering a mode of populist commercial filmmaking for Samoan (and other Pacific Island) audiences in the islands and across the diaspora. His commitment to making entertainment that is relevant to and reflects contemporary Samoan culture has been remarkable. On the eve of Vaiaoga-Ioasa’s fourth feature film release, filmmaker/academic Sarina Pearson sat down with him to talk about how he developed the ‘Stallone model’, the films he has made, and his plans for the future.

By No Means Pleasant

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dauvergne
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Political History ◽  
Phosphate Fertilizer ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Phosphate Mining ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The South

This chapter surveys the ecological and political history of the South Pacific island of Nauru after 1798 – a microcosm of the globalization of unsustainability. In the 1900s Nauru became a major source of high-grade phosphate fertilizer, especially for Australia and New Zealand. The history of phosphate mining in Nauru illustrates how deeply colonial and postcolonial forces can disrupt sustainability even in places far from the centers of power, and how over generations these disruptions can build into an ever-greater crisis. At the height of Nauru’s phosphate boom in the mid-1970s average income of the Nauruan people was the second highest in the world. But this wealth was an illusion, as Nauru was being strip-mined with little planning for a future without phosphate. Today, Nauru’s economy is in tatters, and with hardly any phosphate left it is now serving its former colonizer Australia as a detention camp for asylum seekers who had been hoping to reach Australia.

Exploring success amongst Pacific families in New Zealand: Findings from the Pacific Islands Families Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 216-225
Author(s):  
El-Shadan Tautolo ◽  
Julienne Faletau ◽  
Leon Iusitini ◽  
Janis Paterson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Family Connectedness ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
Pacific Population ◽  
The Pacific

An overarching objective of New Zealand society is equitable educational, economic, and health outcomes for all citizens, including its Pacific population. In response to these ambitions, this study explored success and what elements are necessary for Pacific families to be successful in New Zealand. Focus groups were undertaken with 29 Pacific fathers and 27 Pacific mothers aged between 35-71 years. An inductive thematic analytical approach was used to code and identify themes from the data. Pacific methodologies, including the Talanoa and Kakala frameworks, were integral in the systematic process of data analysis. Three key factors were found to represent and constitute success for Pacific families: strong religious affiliation, practicing and embracing Pacific cultural identity, and family connectedness and cohesion. Incorporating these key facets into social service provision to enable Pacific people to lead successful, productive lives and Pacific families to function successfully.

scholarly journals Molecular Characterization of Giardia Isolates from Calves and Humans in a Region in Which Dairy Farming Has Recently Intensified

2008 ◽  
Vol 74 (16) ◽  
pp. 5100-5105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia L. Winkworth ◽  
James J. Learmonth ◽  
Christoph D. Matthaei ◽  
Colin R. Townsend
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Giardia Duodenalis ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Dairy Calves ◽  
Notifiable Disease ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Infections

ABSTRACT Giardiasis is a notifiable disease of high prevalence in New Zealand, but there is limited knowledge about the sources of Giardia duodenalis genotypes that can potentially cause human infections. Dairy calves are one environmental source of Giardia isolates, but it is unknown whether they harbor genotypes that are potentially capable of causing infections in humans. To address these questions, 40 Giardia isolates from calves and 30 from humans, living in the same region and collected over a similar period, were genotyped using the β-giardin gene. The G. duodenalis genetic assemblages A and B were identified from both calves and humans, and genotype comparisons revealed a substantial overlap of identical genotypes from the two hosts for both assemblages. Significantly, no assemblage E (the genotype commonly found in cattle elsewhere in the world) has been detected in New Zealand livestock to date. Given recent and rapid land use conversions to dairy farming in many South Island regions of New Zealand, an increasingly large concentration of domestic cattle harboring genotypes potentially capable of causing infections in humans is particularly concerning.

scholarly journals 'The Bitter Sweetness of the Space Between': Creative Reflections of Pasifika Ethnic Mixedness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Emily Fatu
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Mixed Ancestry ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
Pacific Population ◽  
Pacific Studies ◽  
Visual Artist

<p>This Master of Arts thesis investigates and draws conclusions regarding how creative arts present accommodating spaces for articulating and understanding cultural mixedness amongst Pacific populations in New Zealand. New Zealand is home to an expanding Pacific population; statistics identify a growing number of these Pacific people who are multi-ethnic, and who are claiming their mixedness in official census data. As Pacific populations have grown, Pacific artists have risen to national prominence in visual, literary and performing arts. Many of these artists have themselves been of mixed ancestry. This thesis examines the work of three female New Zealand artists of mixed Samoan-English or Samoan-Indian descent, asking, “How do these artists and their work express their cultural mixedness?” Discussion centres on mixed media visual artist Niki Hastings-McFall, who is of English and Samoan descent; spoken word poet Grace Taylor, also of English and Samoan descent; and musical performer Aaradhna Patel, who is of Indian and Samoan descent. Placing both the creative work and public commentary of these three artists at its centre, this thesis explores how these artists publicly identify with their Samoan heritage as well as their other heritage(s); how they use their art as a platform for identity articulation; and how creative arts provide flexible and important spaces for self-expression. The thesis draws its theoretical underpinnings from Pacific studies, art history, transnational cultural studies and postcolonial studies, and utilizes Samoan and Tongan conceptions of vā as a key analytic tool.</p>

Engaging Dunedin New Zealand Pacific People in Falls Prevention

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
Troy Tararo-Ruhe ◽  
Debra L Waters ◽  
Rosalina Richards
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Falls Prevention ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Falls Risk ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
Exercise Participation ◽  
Pacific Population ◽  
Culturally Adapted ◽  
Balance Exercise

  Introduction: Falls are a common cause of injury in New Zealand. However, falls risk and prevalence have not been investigated in Pacific peoples. To address this knowledge gap, a literature review, falls risk screening,  and attitudes towards exercise as falls prevention questionnaires were conducted in a Pacific population in the southern regional town of Dunedin. Aims: To identify the attitudes towards strength and balance exercise as falls prevention within Pacific Islands peoples in Dunedin, New Zealand. Methods: Participants aged 55+ were recruited from Pacific Trust Otago, flyers, at church groups and existing exercise classes. Falls screening was assessed by the New Zealand Health Quality and Safety Commission’s Ask, Assess, Act questionnaire. Attitudes towards exercise as falls prevention intervention, was assessed using a culturally adapted version of the Attitudes to Falls-Related Intervention Scales (AFRIS). Both questionnaires were verbally administered in the participants’ native tongue. Results: Fifty respondents (mean age: 68.69, males: 39.58%, females: 60.42%) completed the questionnaires. Just over 56% indicated falls risk (62.07% female and 52.63% male) and 30% reported a fall in the last 12 months (31.03% females and 21.05% males). AFRIS highest mean score, was 6.69 (out of 7) for readiness to engage in strength and balance exercise to prevent falls. The lowest score (6.4) was ease of exercise participation. The total mean AFRIS score was 38.96 out of a possible 42. Conclusions: Self-reported falls in the past year and risk within this population was comparable to other groups and highlights the need for falls prevention that caters to cultural needs. The positive response to adding strength and balance exercise provides supporting evidence of incorporating strength and balance exercises into existing programmes  

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