Healthy Housing – He Kainga Oranga

Press release on tuberculosis in New Zealand (PDF). Research using census data and notified tuberculosis (TB) cases over a five year period shows that the risk of this disease is significantly associated with household crowding in NZ.

NZ Herald article: Depression and respiratory illness in $500m health bill. (PDF). The health cost of the leaky building scandal. Study conducted by Dr Nick Wilson, Prof. Philippa Howden-Chapman, Prof. Julian Crane and Dr Kristen Wickins.

Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman was awarded the EnergySmart Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Energy Award at the 2007 EECA Energywise Awards.

Preliminary results (PDF) of the Housing, Heating and Health Study to be released nationwide.

Press Release: Healthy Housing Study reduces Asthma severity (PDF). Professor Howden-Chapman on latest findings in Housing Heating and Health Study.

Article on Smarter Homes: NZ Research Shows Insulating Houses Results in Better Health. Also, Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman was recently interviewed on Radio NZ’s Nine to Noon show and on and TVNZ’s Close Up show.

Press release: Visit by UK expert on building healthier homes (PDF). Professor David Ormandy, University of Warwick, UK. Interview on Radio NZ’s Nine to Noon show: Monday 26 February 9.30am.

Injury in the Home – Evidence & Research to Inform Prevention. Department of Public Health Summer School, 2007. Hosted by Housing and Health Research Programme and ACC.

Launch of Healthy Homes Taranaki. Keynote speaker Philippa Howden-Chapman (Professor, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago).

Visits by: Professor David Ormandy, University of Warwick, UK Professor Joan Ozanne-Smith, Monash University, Australia.

Press Release: Tuberculosis research refutes common misconceptions about the disease. (PDF). By Dilip Das, Michael Baker. New Zealandʼs tuberculosis rate is not increasing and migrants and refugees are not spreading the disease locally to any significant degree, as many people believe.

Article printed in the The NZ Medical Journal Vol 119 No 1243. Why the tuberculosis incidence rate is not falling in New Zealand (PDF). By Dilip Das, Michael Baker, Kamalesh Venugopal, Susan McAllister.