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How Pacific nurses Can help Pacific people to quit smoking?. Presented by: Loma-Linda Tasi Whitireia New Zealand And Eseta Finau , Sipaia Kupa & Abel Smith Pacific Nurses Section (NZNO ). Bachelor of Nursing Pacific . Pacific Heritage Pacific Health Pacific Leadership (Nursing)
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How Pacific nurses Can help Pacific people to quit smoking? Presented by: Loma-Linda Tasi Whitireia New Zealand And EsetaFinau, Sipaia Kupa & Abel Smith Pacific Nurses Section (NZNO)
Bachelor of Nursing Pacific • Pacific Heritage • Pacific Health • Pacific Leadership (Nursing) • Treaty of Waitangi • Nursing Knowledge • Therapeutic Communications • Bioscience • Applied Bio-Nursing • Nursing Practice • Reflective Practice • Research
Smokefree/Auahi kore Aotearoa NZ 2025 “ Lets have doubled the quit rate, even more for Maori and Pacific” Ben Youdan, ASH NZ 2012 To get smoking rates under 5% for all New Zealanders we need: - Nearly half a million fewer smokers - 1 in 4 need to be Maori (125,000) - 1 in 10 need to be Pasifika (35,000)
Pacific people and Tobacco control interventions Figure 1. Support for key tobacco control interventions by Pacific peoples and European/Other smokers in New Zealand "High support for a tobacco endgame by Pacific peoples who smoke: national survey data." Wilson, N., R. Edwards, et al. (2010). New Zealand Medical Journal 123(1316).