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  • Housing researchers win the Rutherford Medal, NZ’s top research honour

    Housing researchers win the Rutherford Medal, NZ’s top … - Housing and Health Research Programme at the University of Otago, Wellington, have been awarded the 2021 Rutherford … and have partnered with local councils to introduce a rental warrant-of-fitness scheme to improve the quality of
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  • The Healthy Housing Index

    … The Healthy Housing Index pilot study aims to investigate the feasibility of creating a Healthy Housing Index (HHI): an indicator of housing condition and related health and safety outcomes. …
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  • Safe Housing Enabling Long Term Effective Recovery (SHELTER)

    … Well Homes is a housing coordination service which links Wellington whānau … for financial assistance, and referral for provision of insulation, heating, curtain banks, beds, bedding, … improved domestic space heating: A randomised community trial.  Energy Policy . 2010;38(8):3965-3972. Free S, …
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  • Individual and collective action for healthy rental housing in New Zealand: an historical and contemporary study

    … - PhD 2016 Substandard, insecure, and unaffordable housing affects health, contributing to the spread of infectious disease, susceptibility to respiratory illness, … meant tenants were more likely to try to leave the rental sector rather than work towards its improvement. In …
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  • Philippa Howden-Chapman

    … Co-director of He Kāinga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme Director of New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities Professor of
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  • Indoor Air Quality Research Centre of New Zealand calls for government prioritisation on ventilation this World Ventil8 Day

    … 8 November 2024 As the world faces the challenge of maintaining healthy indoor environments in an era of … and Employment highlighted the importance of healthy housing behaviours. This included using mechanical … A 2024 Ministry of Health’s note 5 to the Minister “Options to improve ventilation”, underscores the importance …
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  • Anyone can live in a boarding house, can’t they? The advantages and disadvantages of boarding house residence

    … Clare Aspinall – Master's 2013 Research indicates that housing and tenure type influence well-being. Traditionally, boarding houses are an important type of accommodation, but there is a paucity of knowledge about these dwellings in New Zealand. …
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  • The HOME Study: Studying the effect of homes on the onset of childhood respiratory conditions

    … respiratory health. Many studies now attest to the effects of dampness and mould on pre-existing asthma including large … These associations were confirmed in a detailed Institute of Medicine report in 2004. The same report suggested that … prevalence and morbidity and high rates of poor quality housing. The domestic environment may be an important driver …
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  • Household Energy Affordability

    … in fuel poverty when it would need to spend more than 10% of its income on household energy in order to be adequately … requires information on the contributing factors: income, housing efficiency, energy costs, and indoor temperature. The … living in cities. Households, particularly in the private rental sector, commonly rely on electric space heating which …
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  • Evaluation of Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart programme

    … for New Zealand households. It is the largest programme of its type in New Zealand history and represents, amongst other things, the fruition of more than a decade of academic and applied research by He Kāinga Oranga, the Housing and Health Research Programme of Otago University, …
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