Interpreting in the Health Sector
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Interpreting in the Health Sector
- 1. Partnership Health Canterbury Te Kei o Te Waka
- 2. Refugee and AsianCommunity Report New Zealand Diversity Forum - 2010
- 3. Christchurch Total Population: 398,801 European: 281,385 Asian: 27,438 Maori: 27,735 Pacific: 9,756 Others: 52,434 (Middle Eastern/African: 3,036) Statistics NZ 2006
- 4. Oriental Ethnic Breakdown Statistics NZ 2006
- 5. Partnership Health Canterbury – Capitated Age Bands PHO: Dec 2009
- 8. Language
- 9. Interpreters Every consumer has the right to effective communication in a form, language, and manner that enables the consumer to understand the information provided. Where necessary & reasonably practicable, this includes the right to a competent interpreter. Right 5. Right to Effective Communication (1)The Health & Disability Commissioner (Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights) Regulations 1996
- 10. Diabetes 9.7% 92,400,000 15.5% 148, 200,000 NEJM – March 2010 ~6,800 people 2008 - 400 2009 - 263
- 11. In the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey, Asian males and females had almost 2.5 (males) and over 1.5 (females) times the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes than males and females in the total population. This placed the Asian adult group with the second highest incidence of diagnosed diabetes behind that of Pacific Islanders.
- 12. Health Issues - Migrant Lack of understanding of the NZ health system Language barriers Cultural barriers Low access to services Little knowledge of entitlements Inappropriate use of ED
- 14. Enrolled patients vary from 2 to 155
- 15. Average sustainable by most general practices <20
- 16. Practices either contracted or fee-for-service
- 18. Last financial year, the PHO received $105k for refugee primary health care.
- 20. PHC Future Activities Providing advice on access to services & linguistically specific literature Roll out nutritional programmes Advocating culturally specific services, centrally based, affordable interpreter service & culturally appropriate mental health services. Funding is key to this.
- 21. PHC Future Activities PHC Future Activities Workforce development for trained migrants Improve PHO ethnicity data Target funding for migrant primary health care Establish a PCW based in an Asian organisation Key liaison function with agencies
- 24. The development of an Asian Health Profile for Canterbury
- 26. A concerted push through the ethnic media and societies to increase the level of enrolment to general practice.
- 27. The provision of an effective, safe interpreting and translation service for Asian people
- 28. The improvement of access to appropriate health services
- 29. The improvement of the utilisation of health services
- 30. A focus on health promotion, early intervention and a reduction in risk behaviours
- 31. The development of an Asian Health Needs Analysis