New Zealand healthy housing references
- ASH
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) website - Asthma NZ
Asthma and Respiratory Foundation website - Contact Energy Energy Saving
helping you to save energy - Healthy Housing Auckland
Auckland data on Healthy Housing - Lincoln University – item on housing
New Zealand’s older houses are almost impossible to keep warm enough to maintain good health. - Ministry for the Environment warm homes project
Investigation into reducing pollution effects of home heating - News item on Otago Health Sciences site
Home is where … health is. Article on He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme - poster on coughing and asthma (PDF)
Asthma NZ resource - Second-hand smoke
Second-hand smoke in NZ: legislation, research, resources, health effects and media campaigns. - What kind of heating is best?
Asthma and Respiratory Foundation recommendations
International healthy housing references
- Environmental Health Watch: Healthy House
EHW are a well-established group from Northeast Ohio, USA. - Healthy Housing from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Cullbridge
A national initiative promoting environmental responsibility, resource and energy efficiency, occupant health, and affordability for Canadian housing. - NSW Health: Housing for Health
A methodology for improving living conditions in Aboriginal communities. - Smoke-free Homes and Cars Program from the EPA
US Environmental Protection Agency’s nationwide secondhand smoke and asthma outreach program - The Center for Healthy Housing
A non-profit organisation in Maryland, USA. - The Healthy Housing Coalition
New Mexico, USA - The Smokefree Action Coalition
A group of UK organisations committed to promoting public health. - US Smoke Free Environments Law Project
A range of reports and discussions about the health effects of tobacco smoking, from The Center for Social Gerontology - US Smoke Free Homes website
A website providing resources, information, ideas, and opportunities for collaboration for pediatric clinicians. - World Health Organisation: Housing and health
WHO/Europe addresses home safety and accidents, indoor air quality, thermal comfort and energy, residential environments and physical activity and other issues. - World Health Organisation: symposium proceedings
WHO/Europe’s Housing and Health Symposium in Vilnius, Lithuania, 2004. This site contains papers from the Healthy Housing/He Kianga Oranga in pages 115-122 of the symposium proceedings (available as PDF).
General links
- ACC
The Accident Compensation Corporation - BRANZ
The Building Research Institute of New Zealand - Capital and Coast District Health Board
- Christchurch City Council
- Contact Energy
- CRESA – Centre for Research Evaluation and Social Assessment
- CRESA – Building Attachment Programme Overview
- EECA – The Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority
- Environment Canterbury
- Housing New Zealand Corporation
- HRC – the Health Research Council
- Hutt City Council
- Hutt Valley District Health Board
- LPG Association of New Zealand
- M-co – The Marketplace Company Ltd
This organisation administers New Zealand’s wholesale electricity market (NZEM) and the Metering and Reconciliation Information Agreement (MARIA). - Maarama Consulting Ltd
- Ministry for the Environment
- Ministry of Health
- Opotiki Trade Training
- Orion
- Solid Energy
- Te Puni Kokiri
The Ministry for Maori Development’s Taranaki office is the Insulation and Mould study’s community partner for the Taranaki region. - The Health Research Council
- WARG
The Wellington Asthma Research Group. - Wellington School of Architecture and Design