Back to: Linking to Care, Point of Care Testing (POCT). Aotearoa Edition
Some of the content of this section may be confronting or triggering, in Aotearoa reach out to Are You Ok, Shine, Womens Refuge, CAB, Pet Refuge, Youthline, Tautoko Tane, Shakti… there are many more; a google search may help. Internationally there will be support services somewhere… or view these sites for info… many of these sites have a hide my visit function
This course is an introduction to what may be a lot of new concepts content and learnings for many of you. Human nature tends to base our personal perspectives and understanding on our own lived experience, then our learned experience.
If you have not lived it, learned it and practiced it; it is not going to happen under stress response or in an emergency. Knowing this can make a difference when we are under a stress response or in an emergency situation. Possibly this understanding can help with our People Centred Approach.
Today’s health services are not fit for 21st century challenges. Approximately half the world’s population lacks access to essential health care. Where health care is accessible, it is often fragmented and of poor quality. A fundamental shift in the way health services are organized and delivered is key to achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and universal health coverage (UHC). World Health Organization 2023 (WHO), please read the full article on Services Organization & Integration here. Noting the section on Integrated People-Centered Health Services.
We have explored the United Nations Anti-harassment statement, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as forming the basis for our guidelines and approach to our work. These important principles form the basics of our People Centred Approach, especially neutrality, respecting free and equal rights without discrimination or judgement and equitable health access.
We also have developed understanding that our Health Network Collective obligation is to ask how we can help, to share our knowledge and work towards collectively improving our family, our community, our society.
Health Network Collective aims to consciously adopt the perspectives of individuals, families and community as participants and beneficiaries in a health approach that responds to their preferences and needs. This aligns to World Health Organization (WHO) key universal health care coverage messaging.
It is Ok to Ask for Help:
Read this from the previous section again, and then again one more time. The following is largely from two family violence sites, Are You Ok and White Ribbon. The messaging is absolutely applicable to any situation of possible violence or confrontation, even your response(s). Please click on the logo and links below and have a good read of the content. No violence is ok.
Violence is a choice.
No-one makes us do it, we own our bodies and how we use them.
We own our voices and how we use them.
We own our emotions and how we handle them.
Safe Time Out: we need to be able to read the signs of our own state of “getting wound up” and taking safe time out when we notice we are getting wound up, agitated or wanting to respond personally.
- calmly state “I need to take safe time out”
- leave the situation
- do something physical like go for a walk
- use positive self-talk: “the only person I need to be in control of is me, I need to calm down”
- talk to someone who can help you calm down
- arrange another time to talk or meet again when everyone is calmer and likely ready to talk
Violence Happens in Many Ways…
- Emotional: making you think you are crazy
- Verbal: put downs, harassment
- Threats: to your safety and the safety of others
- Isolation: keeping you away from your friends, family and support. Sometimes by creating distrust
- Sexual: molestation, rape, coercion
- Financial: keeping you financially dependent
- Intimidation: living in fear
- Physical: slaps, punches, kicks, weapons
If this is you, or someone you know call for help. If you’re identifying this (or these patterns) in wai ora or those in need; think PFA (Look, Listen, Link) and either seek advice on what to do or, if appropriate, offer link(s) to care.
Some of the content of this section may have been confronting or triggering. In Aotearoa reach out to Are You Ok, Shine, Womens Refuge, CAB, Pet Refuge, Youthline, Tautoko Tane, Shakti… there are many more; a google search may help. Internationally there will be support services somewhere… or view these sites for info… many of these sites have a hide my visit function
