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South Pacific Division

Population,38,212,0004Unions34LocalMissions/ConferencesChurches,2,030;Membership, 454,586;

Strengths• ChurchiswellknownespeciallyintheSouthPacific• OurHealthmessage/ExcellentHealthresources• AmazingresultsinHealthMinistry• Committedworkforce• Healthcourses- Avondale/Fulton• Healthcurriculuminschools• Stronghospitalsystem– SAH/Atoifi AdventistHospital• Useofmedia/healthwebsites

Challenges• Widegeographicalterritory• NCDBurden• Expensiveintermsoftravel• Healthdirectors– localMissions/conferences• Limitedfunding• Unhealthyworkforce(AdventistHealthstudy)• Administrators/Pastorsunderstandingtheimportanceof

Health• Attritionrate

Adventist Health: 2011-2015 Strategy Overview

Adopt-a-Clinic+ Isolated MedicalOutposts

ResilienceDepressionEmotional Health

Health Promoting Churches + Clinics + Schools

UnderstandingAdventist Health philosophyHealth challenges & disease trendsAudit/Survey (Villages, communities and Schools)Environmental health Issues/needs database

Health Outreach

Training Resource Development•HPC manual for:- Health workers- Church leaders- Pastors, Nurses & Teachers- Church Health Secretaries- Church members- Laymen- Villages/Communities

•AVONDALE/Fulton: Graduate Diploma in Lifestyle medicineMasters in Lifestyle Medicine (MLM)

Intervention StrategiesWith localised application

AH Directors, Pastors &Health SecretariesAdventist Health ProfessionalsCommunity,Village, ChurchCommittees

+ ADRA & Government Assistance

Outreach Resource Development•Nutrition Manual•Island Health Course•Island Health Book•Betty’s Clinic series• PPT presentations• - drugs• - alcohol• - 8 remedies• - nutrition• - Creation Health• DVD “Just a little”…series• Audio Program content

Outreach Programs• Staged with Outreach • Training + Adventist & • Global Mission Assistance• CHIP

Nutrition Lifestyle Issues

HIV/AIDSCommunicable Diseases

Health ConferencesSDA & Community

Health Promoting Clinics/Hospitals

Health Promoting Schools

Health Promoting Churches

Alcohol DrugsSmoking

AH Directors, Nurses && Community Health WorkersAdventist Health ProfessionalsCommunity,Village clinic Committees(Includes Adventist Hospitals)

AH & Education Directors, Nurses && Community Health Workers

•Health Safety & Hygiene

•Health in theCurriculum

•Accreditation•Healthy Food

CHIPDepressionRecoveryForgivetoLiveLiveMore

CommunityHealthEducationProgram(CHEP)

CHEPcertIVprogramCHEPDiplomaprogram

AdvancedDipinLifestyleMedicine(AvondaleCollege)

Formore information contactDrDarrenMorton [email protected] orgotohttp://www.avondale.edu.au/courses/Postgraduate (CourseWork)/graduate_diploma_in_lifestyle_medicine

.LifestyleMedicine- Past,Present,Future

.FoodasMedicine

.DeterminantsofChronicDisease

.PhysiologicalUnderpinnings ofChronicDisease

.ExerciseasMedicine

.PsychosocialFactorsinLifestyleMedicineandHealth

.Processes inLifestyleMedicineandHealthPromotion

.LifestyleMedicineforSpecificPopulations






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AfocusonMISSIONandDiscipling…intheSouthPacific

ADOPTACLINIC- 10YRSON2007- 2016

AdoptAClinic

• Totalof54clinics• PNG- 30• SolomonIslands- 19• Vanuatu- 7

Staffemployed- 200Populationserved- Approximately500,000 ruraldwellers.

BalolavaClinic,Solomon Islands

Before

AfterFly’n BuildAugust 2009

After

Before

Kapi Clinic, Papua New GuineaCompleted 2009

FandueClinicVanuatu

After

Before

Rebuilt 2009/2010

Connecting with Government hospitals and clinics in the South Pacific

ManyareashaveNOmedicalHelp

ISOLATEDMEDICALOUTPOSTS

Buhalu IMO

Arufi IMO– WesternProvinceJuly 25 toAug102014






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Santo,VanuatuHPCITraining

FijiHPCITraining2014

Future?

Major Focus Areas - SPD

Mission to the Cities

Discipleship

Media

Comprehensive Health

Ministry

New Zealand Pacific Union

ConferencePapua New

Guinea Union Mission

Australian Union Conference

Trans -Pacific Union

Mission

Nth New ZealandSth New ZealandCook IslandsFrench PolynesiaNew CaledoniaPitcairn Island

Bougainville Central Papua Eastern HighlandsMadang ManusMorobeNew Britain New IrelandNorth East Papua SepikSouth West Papua Western Highlands

Eastern SolomonsFijiKiribatiMalaita SamoaTonga & NiueTuvaluVanuatuWestern Solomons

LOCAL MISSIONS OR CONFERENCES

LOCAL CHURCHES

Nth AustraliaSth QueenslandNorth NSWGreater SydneySouth NSWVictoriaTasmaniaSouth Australian West Australia

Signs Publishing Company (AMN)

Adventist Media Centre (AMN)

Avondale College

South PacificDivision

ACA Health Benefits Fund

ACAST - Mercer

SPD Travel

R isk ManagementService

Pa cific Adventist University

Sydney Adventist Hospital

Sanitarium Health Food Company

FultonCollege

Lilydale Academy

MamaraphaCollege

Sonoma College

Omaura School of Ministry

Longburn College

AtoifiAdventist Hospital

ADRA

13 87 13 44

Comprehensive Health Ministry

Individual Member

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