He Kainga Oranga, the Housing and Health Research Programme, examines and clarifies the links between Housing and Health. Although the association between poor housing and ill health is known, the links that make up the causal chain have until recently been poorly understood.
Conducting our own studies and examining existing evidence enables us to identify and evaluate housing-related interventions to improve individual, family and community health. Our multi-disciplinary team has expertise in both qualitative and quantative disciplines.
We are based in the University of Otago, Wellington. We are funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand.
Recent News
- The Public Health Association of New Zealand is pleased to announce its 2012 conference: Equity from the start – valuing our children, to be held 3-5 September in Wellington. This is New Zealand’s premiere public health event of the year and you don’t want to miss it! Find out more about speakers, conference streams, sponsorship opportunities and submitting abstracts at http://conference.pha.org.nz.
- We made a submission to the New Zealand Productivity Commission’s Draft Report on Housing Affordability.
- A documentary on child poverty screened on TV3, that featured some of our work.
Current Research
- Close-contact infectious diseases
- Electricity Prepayment Meter Users
- Evaluation of Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart
- Healthy Housing Index
- Home Injury Prevention Intervention (HIPI)
- Housing & childhood respiratory illness (HOME)
- Rental housing
- Severe Housing Deprivation
- Social Housing Outcomes Worth (SHOW)
- Warm Homes for Elder New Zealanders (WHEZ)
Past Research
- Housing and (Dis)ability Study
- Housing and Health of Medical Students
- Housing and Meningococcal Disease
- Housing, Heating and Health Study
- Housing, Insulation and Health Study
- Latent Tuberculosis Infection
- Mould in Homes
- Residential Movement, Attachment and Health
- Rheumatic Fever and housing conditions
- Second hand smoke at home
- Tokelau Extended Family Housing Study
Student Research
- Aspinall – ongoing – boarding houses
- Chisholm- ongoing- rental quality and security
- Grant – ongoing – private rental housing market
- O’Sullivan- ongoing- fuel poverty and prepayment
- Preval- ongoing- evaluating large interventions
- Tiatia- ongoing- family centred healing
- Pierse- 2011- causality in community trials
- Severinsen- 2010 -camping ground residence
- Telfar-Barnard- 2010- winter hospitalisation
- Bierre – 2008 – beliefs on private rental housing
- Free – 2008 – home heating and school absence
- Gillespie-Bennett- 2008-home heating and NO2
- O’Sullivan – 2008- warm homes pilot
- Preval – 2008 – home heating cost benefit
- Amore- 2007- homelessness and policy
- Vujcich – 2007- home heating choices
- Widmer – 2006 – crowding in the 1990s
- Jera- 2005- wellbeing and subsidised housing
