Uzvrt815M Health Promotion : Free Assessment Answer

the health care situation will be analyzed in the context of their cultural norms and rituals. The effectiveness of the healthcare campaign among the Maori community for the development of healthcare services will be considered as the prime concern for this discussion. The comparison between the cultural norms and other minor communities of New Zealand will be analyzed in the study to locate the overall mental health situation of the minor communities of New Zealand.  The concluding part of the study will summaries the whole analysis and will recommend for the effectiveness of the health care programs for the healthcare development of Maori women.

Findings and analysis

Evaluation of risks and benefits of addiction

Addiction can be identified as the key issues for health care complications for Maori women. The consumption of alcohol, drugs and marihuana would create various healthcare complications. These factors increase the depression rate among Maori women. The increase of depression may the cognitive impairment of Maori women (Denison et al., 2018).

The risks and benefits of addiction are as follows:

• The alcohol, drugs and smoking addiction among Maori women often lead them to poor physical health. The growth of poor physical health ends in mental depression (Filoche et al., 2013).  
• Alcohol consumption and smoking can create pregnancy complications among Maori women (Elers, 2014).
• The alcohol and drug consumption can reduce the life expectancy of Maori women. This reasons to death of about 2.8 times more than the non-Maori (Wyeth et al., 2018)
• Smoking habit can cause cardiovascular problems among Maori women (Tucker, Kivell, Laugesen & Grace, 2016).
• Alcohol consumption can increase their obesity and increase the problems of liver complication. As per the recent study, 27% of the Maori women are suffering from obesity (Doolan-Noble & Richardson, 2018). The increase in obesity increases the rate of disability by 24%.
• Addiction relapse healthcare conditions (Canady, 2015).
• Addiction treatment is cost-effective.

• A periodical treatment can be beneficial for addiction treatment of Maori women  (Canady, 2015).

• Training and education will be provided for a healthy lifestyle (Canady, 2015).

• Harm minimization approaches to community health care can be beneficial to reduce the habit of addiction for Maori women (Canady, 2015).

Recommendation for best available preventive measures

• An arrangement for a healthcare campaign among the Maori communities can be the most suitable recommendation to mitigate the potential risk factors for the healthcare of Maori women (Frueh, 2015).
• Rehabilitation camps for addiction  must be arranged
• A free health checkup every week, providing free medicines and advice on healthy lifestyle should be scheduled (Frueh, 2015).
• High-quality treatment in low cost must be provided
• The accession of the Maori women towards the healthcare facilities must be granted
• Culturally responsive health care services must be provided to Maori women

Evaluation of barriers to recommendations

The key barriers to developing mental healthcare campaigns are as follows

• The unavailability of the healthcare professionals to join in the healthcare campaigns (Parrish, 2017).
• The racial discrimination in the healthcare setting in New Zealand (Parrish, 2017).
• The shortage of financial resources (Parrish, 2017).
• The gender discrimination in the Maori community. Several taboos are there in the Maori communities for women (Bellamy et al., 2016).
• The communication gaps. The women of the Maori communities are the key stakeholders in the mental healthcare campaign. Thus, they are needed to be convinced about the effectiveness of the mental healthcare campaigns. This requires effective communication ass most of the women in the Maori community cannot understand English properly (Bellamy et al., 2016).

Section 2: Treaty of Waitangi

Evaluation of three principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and its involvement in healthcare campaign

The three principles of the Waitangi treaty of New Zealand are as follows

Partnership: The Maori communities’ are considered to be the most deprived community in the healthcare setting of New Zealand. Thus, they must be connected properly using an interpreter to develop a healthcare partnership (Xuefei, 2018).

Participation: This seeks the participation of Maoris in all the healthcare campaigns at the Maori communities. Moreover, they are offered to participate in the making, planning and decision-making process of various healthcare skims (Xuefei, 2018). This would enable the development of physical and mental healthcare structure at the Maori community.

Protection: The protection principles assure the Maori women to avail the same kind of healthcare protection that is availed by the non-Maori communities. This includes valuing the cultural aspects, social practices and ethnicity practices of Maori culture (Xuefei, 2018).

Two cultural norms of Maori to prevent the health issue

Addiction increases both the physical and mental health of the Maori women. The two cultural activities that can prevent them from addiction are

1. Influencing them to indulge in creating intricate works to show reverence to their community culture. This would make them busy in physical activities that can reduce their habit of addiction  (Matthews, 2016)
2. The Maori women use to consume alcohol, marijuana and smoking to reduce their depression. Alternatively, influencing them to indulge “Waita” (signing song) during their cultural festival to keep them happy and can prevent them from depression (Matthews, 2016).

Evaluation of two reasons of discrepancy between the norms for Maori women

Two reasons for the discrepancy in the norms of Maoris that cannot protect the women are

• Lack of education: The people of Maori community do not have adequate healthcare education regarding the social inequalities. The healthcare literacy rate of Maori people is 24% to 26% which is not sufficient to gather adequate healthcare knowledge (Hochberg & Phillips, 2016).
• Socio-economic position:  The women of Maori community are not from a steady socioeconomic position as more than 66% of the Maori women live under the deprivation level those deciles from 7 to 10. Thus, they are living in the burden of financial inequality that increases their level of depression and they get addicted to smoking and drinking.  (Hochberg & Phillips, 2016).

Compare and contrast of cultural norms of Maori women with other minorities

The comparison between Maori and non-Maori culture are as follows

• The life expectancy of the Maori women is 76 while the life expectancy of the non-Maori women is 80yearas. This states the inequality in the distribution of effective healthcare treatment (Obertová, Scott, Brown, Stewart & Lawrenson, 2015)
• The health disability of the Maori women stays in 7.7 unit to 11.4 units while the disability of the non-Maori women remains in 5.2 units to 7.0 units. This signifies the inability to development of mental health care setting for Maoris (Obertová, Scott, Brown, Stewart & Lawrenson, 2015).

The Maori women are not permitted in the war dance. This cultural ritual is considered to be effective for the Maori women to be free from the tension of communal war that ends in depression (Matthews, 2016). Moreover, women have the rights to change songs and performing dance can be an alternative method to reduce their habit of unhealthy addiction.  

Section3: Evaluation and effectiveness of healthcare campaign

The trend of healthcare issues among Maori women

The trends are as follows

• 2% of Maori women are affected by chronic healthcare disease due to smoking  (Ruck et al., 2017).
• 55% of the Maori women have only one healthcare issue, 32.9% has two multiple healthcare issue disorder and 5.6% has three or more multiple health care issues due to excessive depression (Ruck et al., 2017).

Three effectiveness of the program to reduce the healthcare barrier

Three effectiveness  are

• The healthcare campaign has succeeded to locate the potential healthcare discrimination for Maoris (Elers, 2014)
• The program has succeeded to gather adequate information on the reasons for the mental health problems for the women of Maoris (Elers, 2014)
• The campaign has succeeded in providing free mental health treatment to the Maori women (Elers, 2014).

Conclusion 

The study is developed to the healthcare issues for the Maori women due to addiction. They use to get inadequate healthcare facilities due to discrimination. Social inequality has also played a key role in the backwardness of the mental and physical health care structure of the Maori women. Various Maori rituals have been described in the study those can be useful to develop the healthcare for the Maori women. Hence, the effectiveness of the healthcare programs lies in the equal treatment, indiscriminate healthcare structure, rehabilitation and progression in the mental healthcare situation.

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