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Warmer drier toolkit
A workshop for providers
By the end of this workshop
• You will have an understanding of:
• Background, purpose and contents of the
toolkit
• Three Step Model to Health Literacy
• You will have also practised how to use the
toolkit in your work
Rheumatic Fever Prevention
Programme Three Strategies
1. Improve access to timely treatment for
strep throat infections
2. Reduce household crowding and therefore
reduce household transmission of Strep
throat bacteria
3. Increase awareness of rheumatic fever,
what causes it and how to prevent it
2015 RF Awareness Campaign
Objectives
1. The link between sore throats and rheumatic fever
2. The importance of getting sore throats in at-risk
children checked by a health professional
3. The importance of completing the full antibiotic
course for children who have Group A
streptococcal bacteria
4. What families of high-risk children can do in their
own homes to stop their children from getting
rheumatic fever, including ways to minimise the
impact of cold, damp housing and how to create
space between sleeping children
Background
Toolkit trialled in March 2015 with:
• 59 Māori, Samoan and Tongan
whānau/families
• 31 staff from providers
in Auckland, Bay of Plenty and Northland
Purpose of trial was to find out
• if the messages were acceptable to parents
and caregivers of children at risk of
rheumatic fever
• how the messages should be designed
• who should deliver the messages and in
what format
• which formats were preferred by parents
and caregivers.
Whānau/families told us the
toolkit needed to
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explain why the messages were important
emphasise the benefit to the whānau/family
reflect the real situations of whānau/family
be in formats that worked for them e.g.
videos, visual, colourful and engaging for
whānau/family
• take into account what they were already
doing
Providers said they needed
• training about how to deliver the messages
• to use the messages flexibly to allow for
families’ different situations
• to feel comfortable delivering the messages
• to know the messages are going to make a
difference
• to understand how this toolkit fitted into the
RFPP.
Purpose of the toolkit
“This is about giving gentle
information to whānau/families to
help them do more with what they
have”.
Mana Kidz Educator
Keys parts of a warmer, drier, healthier
home - SHIVereD
SPREAD OF
INFECTIONS
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Space to
prevent spread
of infections
when children
are sleeping
Show video
Handout cards
Three steps to better health literacy
What we often observe
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Assume
Tell
3.
Assume
How are you going to use the
toolkit in your work?