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

Alcohol-related harm
Hospitalisations, hazardous drinking, motor vehicle crashes, alcohol outlets

Animals & human health
Leptospirosis

Border health
Overseas infectious diseases, order health NZ, high-risk pests caught, exotic mosquitoes established

Children
Children's environmental health indicators

Climate change
Changes in temperature, rainfall and drought, and health impacts

Hazardous substances
Injuries and diseases from exposure to hazardous substances

Indoor environment
Household crowding, second-hand smoke, cold and damp homes, health impacts

Population vulnerability
Population groups more at risk from environmental hazards, Social vulnerability indicators for natural hazards and pandemics

Transport
Motor vehicles, transport modes used, unmet GP need from lack of transport, road traffic injuries, health burden of transport

UV exposure
Ultraviolet (UV) levels, melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancer, vitamin D deficiency

Water
Suitability for swimming, access to safe drinking water, waterborne diseases and other water-related topics