Streaming Pacific Videos: Health & Medicine

Link to Video (41 minutes)
"Features a series of vignettes which are designed to decrease cultural misunderstanding and conflict between health care professionals and their HIV patients."

Link to Video (33 minutes)
"Describes how Micronesians have been trained in the Pacific Basin Medical Officers Training Program of the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Gives the historical background of health care in Micronesia, an overview of current needs, and consideration of future issues."

Link to Video (59 minutes)
"Explains the uses of various native plants in medicines. Includes an explanation of how Tane and his many wives produced the flora of Aotearoa. In Maori, with some English subtitles. Suggested audience: secondary."

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"Shows Hale Ola o Hoʻopākolea, a mental health service on the Waiʻanae Coast, which uses the western approach of science and medicine as well as indigenous healers and caring systems rooted in the Hawaiian tradition. Physicians, counselors and clients speak about the value of having a culturally sensitive healing center within the community."

Link to Video (60 minutes)
"Blaisdell gives a critical view of medical practices in ancient Hawaii, compares health and medicine with the West and draws applications from native Hawaiian practices to health systems today."

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"Describes the partnership between the Marimed Foundation and the Marshall Islands government in providing medical services and health education through the Tole Mour sailing ship based in Honolulu."

Link to Video (51 minutes)
"Presents a series of situations in which doctors and nurses interacting with patients and their family members illustrate the kinds of cross-cultural communication problems that can arise in the Asia-Pacific region. Commentators describe the underlying social and cultural factors and suggest ways in which health service professionals can become more sensitive and effective."

Link to Video (50 minutes)
"Guam disease, found only on that small Pacific island, causes symptoms strikingly similar to Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's, and Alzheimer's disease, but it is not hereditary. In this program, neurologist/author Oliver Sacks travels to Guam in order to investigate this lethal illness."