Micro-credential projects deliver for Māori and Pacific populations

NEWS – eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth

TikTok videos to help Pasifika people navigate health services and online exercise classes for socially isolated kaumatua are some of the real-world projects being implemented as part of a new micro-credential in applied digital health.

HiNZ is piloting the micro-credential with a focus on Māori and Pacific designed, led and delivered digital health action.

Participants have been developing, testing and refining a prototype digital health initiative to explore and solve an issue specific to their workplace, focused on improving efficiencies and health outcomes for their community.

One initiative involves training rangatahi (young people) in computer upcycling in order to get low cost computers to whānau. Another is a car pool app for rural communities to access transport to attend town-based clinics.

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