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Community pharmacist Claire Salter took part in a full-immersion Māori language course run at the University of Waikato’s Tauranga campus in 2022. She discusses her reasons for learning te reo as a Pākehā. From April, having a basic understanding of te reo Māori will be a requirement for all pharmacists under the Pharmacy Council’s competency standards
Māori Language Petition. See: tinyurl.com/Petition-tereo
Healthify Te Puna Waiora. Cultural safety & cultural competence for healthcare providers. See: tinyurl.com/Culture-competence
Curtis E, Jones R, Tipene-Leach D, et al. Why cultural safety rather than cultural competency is required to achieve health equity: a literature review and recommended definition. Int J Equity Health 2019;18:174. doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1082-3
Health Navigator/Health Literacy NZ. Self-management support course: Cultural safety modules 1 and 2 handout. See: tinyurl.com/Cultural-safe
In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
Why recognising the signs of dehydration is important...
