09 Nov Take Home Messages from the ANA Asian Forum, Auckland 2017
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Participants at the last session of the Asian Forum were asked to discuss and write down their take home messages from the day. The following is a summary of the key themes of this activity.
- There is no one size fits all
- Know the statistics and trends in population data in your own area and deliver tailored services to these groups
- Cultural understanding starts from having strong relationships and building networks
- Collaboration
- Awareness of huge cultural diversity within the Asian population and within generations and the need to understand these better
- Being humble and respectful and maintain cultural values
- Learn correct pronunciation
- Deliver culturally appropriate services
- Value the importance of cultures, identity and language and ensure this knowledge is maintained for all generations
- Create culturally acceptable programmes
- Conceptualising cultural intelligence
- Different generations have different beliefs and attitudes, e.g. Chinese parenting
- Identifying the change of environment and its effects on daily activities, i.e. differences in practices in home country compared to NZ – e.g. Indian participation in physical activity
- Deliver what people want, not what we think they need
- A person centred approach should be at the centre of everything we do
- Everyone can be a health coach
- Maintain traditions and build on these with contemporary learnings
- “We have two ears and one mouth so we need to listen twice as hard.”
Source: Alison Pask, ANA, November 2017