Environmental Health Indicators
Environmental Health Indicators
Explore our Environmental Health Indicators.
What are Environmental Health Indicators?
Information about the environmental health indicators - what they are, what they cover, who will find them useful, how they are selected.
What is environmental health?
Information about what environmental health is, and why the environment is important to human health.
Indicator list
Current list of our Environmental Health Indicators.
Links to other environment and health monitoring
The Environmental Health Indicators complement other monitoring programmes on the environment and health in New Zealand.
About the indicators
Learn more about indicators and environmental health and find a current list of all our indicators.
Air quality
Wood and coal fires, vehicles, air pollutants, health impacts
Recreational water
Livestock, water-borne diseases
Drinking-water quality
Access to safe drinking-water, water-borne diseases, fluoridated water, oral health of children.
Indoor environment
Household crowding, second-hand smoke, cold and damp homes, health impacts
Transport
Motor vehicles, transport modes used, unmet GP need from lack of transport, road traffic injuries, health burden of transport
Hazardous substances
Injuries and diseases from exposure to hazardous substances
Climate change
Changes in temperature, rainfall and drought, and health impacts
Population vulnerability
Population groups more at risk from environmental hazards, demographic information
Border Health
Overseas infectious diseases, order health NZ, high-risk pests caught, exotic mosquitoes established
UV exposure
Ultraviolet (UV) levels, melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancer, vitamin D deficiency
Children
Children's environmental health indicators
Animals & human health
Leptospirosis
Alcohol-related harm
Hospitalisations, hazardous drinking, motor vehicle crashes, alcohol outlets