New health resources for Tongan community

The Foundation is proud to announce that we have translated our Child Symptom Diary and Asthma Action Plan, COPD Action Plan and Adult Asthma Action Plans (AIR, 3 Stage and 4 Stage) to Tongan.

Translating the Foundation’s resources into Pasifika languages demonstrates our commitment to improving health literacy and access to targeted information. This is imperative to reduce health inequity in the Pacific population.

Pacific communities can be hard to reach, and they suffer a great respiratory disease burden. By providing targeted resources, the Foundation hopes to support Tongan people to manage their respiratory conditions and get the support they need.

Our key resources are also available in Samoan, as well as te reo Māori and Simplified Chinese.

Early next year, the Foundation will be running three COPD education events for health professionals around the country. The events will be based around the Foundation’s COPD Guidelines, and will cover what’s changed, what’s new, and the management of patients with COPD in a New Zealand context.

We will have a different expert speaker for each event:

Wellington: Dr James Fingleton, Medical Director of the Foundation and COPD Guidelines author. Auckland: Dr Stuart Jones, lead COPD Guidelines author Christchurch: Professor Bob Hancox, lead COPD Guidelines author

These are free events, and they also include a free registration for the Asthma and COPD Fundamentals eLearning Course (valued at $180). The course is endorsed by the College of Nurses Aotearoa for 12 CPD hours.