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Ethnic communities in Aotearoa New Zealand are diverse, with gendered migration experiences shaping health and wellbeing. This study highlighted mental health needs of ethnic migrant women and girls, lack of safe spaces, limited cultural responsiveness, and the importance of participatory, evidence-based, culturally safe support to meet their needs.
Aotearoa New Zealand resettled over 1,700 Afghan evacuees after the 2021 Taliban takeover. NFACT supported 1,478 arrivals with culturally tailored, community-led services addressing health, education, employment, and wellbeing. Using Māori wellness models, NFACT fostered belonging and resilience, helping evacuees integrate while highlighting effective humanitarian resettlement approaches.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine community based, trauma informed to support refugee mental health and wellbeing, recognising that refugee status is met through forced displacement in which refugees have experience of personal human rights abuses and have survived atrocities in which family and community have been lost.
This review examined studies on the mental health of Asian and MELAA women and girls in New Zealand. Findings highlight limited and inconsistent data, with few studies providing detailed breakdowns. More focused research is needed to inform evidence-based policies and support equitable wellbeing outcomes for these communities.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine community based, trauma informed to support refugee mental health and wellbeing, recognising that refugee status ismet through forced displacement in which refugees have experience of personal human rights abuses and have survived atrocities in which family and community have been lost.
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This article explores the impact of double minority status (ethnic and sexual/gender) and protective factors associated with emotional wellbeing and mental health of Asian Rainbow youth in Aotearoa using Youth19 data. Family acceptance and feeling safe at school mitigate risks of adverse emotional wellbeing experienced by Asian Rainbow youth.
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In New Zealand, mental health issues, termed a ‘silent epidemic’, have multifaceted impacts, including poor mental health and persistent access inequities. Addressing these requires comprehensive strategies and programs like ‘Like Mind, Like Mine’.
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Background: In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), Pacific people have a higher prevalence of mental illness compared with the general population. Tongan people have high rates of mental illness and tend to not use mental health services. The risk for mental illnesses also differs between those born in Tonga and those born in NZ.
Aim: This study presented the views of New Zealand-dwelling Tongan youth and mental health service users regarding the meaning of mental distress.
Asians in Aotearoa New Zealand have a diverse variety of ethnicities, backgrounds, and cultures, and thus have diverse health needs. Asians are NZ’s fastest growing ethnic group it was recently announced that the Asian population is projected to reach 26% by 2043. So it’s increasingly important that their health issues are not overlooked.
Although the health of Asians in NZ appears to be generally good there are in fact many unique health issues. This includes the particular health needs of different Asian ethnicities and subpopulations, including youth, women, older people, new migrants, and refugees and asylum seekers.
Utilisation of services is particularly concerning. Major barriers include racism and discrimination, English language proficiency, cultural ifferences, lack of awareness of services, and lack of appropriate services. Where appropriate services are available there
is insufficient capacity.
However, this does give rise to many opportunities a national plan or strategy would give a consistent approach to Asian health for the whole of NZ and could provide a good framework for more targeted services, increased culturally appropriate workforce increased engagement and accessibility, and an improvement in Asian inclusive public health research and data collection. Addressing mental health for Asians in NZ is a key priority.
