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