Venessa Pokaia
Biographic Data
| ID | 8839351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Venessa Pokaia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Venessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Pokaia |
| SIGNATURE | POKAIA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Prevention strategies to reduce violence against rainbow communities
Rainbow communities, defined here as people who are not heterosexual, heteroromantic, or cisgender, experience disproportionately high levels of family and sexual violence. However, violence prevention services in Aotearoa New Zealand often fail to meet their needs, particularly for those situated at the intersectional margins. Underpinned by the Culture-Centered Approach, which works with communities to identify challenges and corresponding solu…
Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (Care)
This essay outlines the organizing work of the Center for Culture-Centred Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) in mobilizing for social justice. Conceptualizing health in relationship to justice, the academic-activist-community partnerships built by CARE explore the organizing processes through which communities at the margins own voice infrastructures in seeking structural transformation
Receiving Healthcare Amidst Poverty During the Covid-19 Lockdowns
COVID-19 has exacerbated existing health inequalities globally. Guided by the culture-centered approach, this study examined perspectives and experiences of healthcare during two lockdowns in four marginalized contexts in Aotearoa New Zealand. The participants' narratives depicted dissatisfaction with the new modes of healthcare delivery, reporting longer waiting times, a preference for face-to-face delivery, language barriers, and issues with th…
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Receiving Healthcare Amidst Poverty During the Covid-19 Lockdowns
COVID-19 has exacerbated existing health inequalities globally. Guided by the culture-centered approach, this study examined perspectives and experiences of healthcare during two lockdowns in four marginalized contexts in Aotearoa New Zealand. The participants' narratives depicted dissatisfaction with the new modes of healthcare delivery, reporting longer waiting times, a preference for face-to-face delivery, language barriers, and issues with th…
Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (Care)
This essay outlines the organizing work of the Center for Culture-Centred Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) in mobilizing for social justice. Conceptualizing health in relationship to justice, the academic-activist-community partnerships built by CARE explore the organizing processes through which communities at the margins own voice infrastructures in seeking structural transformation
Prevention strategies to reduce violence against rainbow communities
Rainbow communities, defined here as people who are not heterosexual, heteroromantic, or cisgender, experience disproportionately high levels of family and sexual violence. However, violence prevention services in Aotearoa New Zealand often fail to meet their needs, particularly for those situated at the intersectional margins. Underpinned by the Culture-Centered Approach, which works with communities to identify challenges and corresponding solu…
Aotearoa (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Center (category theory) (1 work) · Class (philosophy) (1 work)