Healthy Housing – He Kainga Oranga

Tuberculosis

Using the notified Tuberculosis data from ESR and data from the 1996 and 2001 censuses we used ecological modelling at the CAU level to examine the effect of household crowding on tuberculosis. We included the proportion of migrants in an area and area characteristics (such as deprivation as measured by NZDep).We found thatalthough some migrants arrive in New Zealand with tuberculosis they do not spread it to the wider New Zealand population.

Read our press release here (PDF).

We are also working with the World Health Organisation to calculate the attributable risk of household crowding on tuberculosis for the European region.