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Environmental Health Newsletter 17

Environmental Health Newsletter 17

June 2019

Welcome to the latest issue of the Environmental Health Indicators (EHI) newsletter.

As we indicated in a previous newsletter, HealthSpace, our companion data visualisation website, is undergoing a major revamp. We have been working with our colleagues at OpenLab and GeoWise and expect to launch the modernised, enhanced, bright and user-friendly HealthSpace in the next couple of months.

In the last month we gave a roadshow presentation to the Health Promotion Agency (HPA) and developed several opportunities for collaboration between our two groups. In the next couple of months, we will be taking our roadshow to our funder, the Ministry of Health. As you will see in this issue Rose promoted the Hazardous Substances Disease and Injury Reporting Tool (HSDIRT), an electronic notification tool for surveillance of illness and injury related to hazardous substances, at a GPs’ conference, and is off to a GIS conference in San Diego for winning the national ESRI Young Scholar award.

Barry Borman

 

Recent Updates

No new exotic mosquito species were introduced between 2009 and 2018

As of 2018, there are three long-established exotic mosquito species. In 2018, Culex sitiens was detected in Kaipara Harbour through the National Saltmarsh mosquito surveillance programme.

For more information, please visit our website.

 
Exotic Mosquito species
 
View border health indicators
 
Oral Health of Children
View drinking water quality indicators

In 2017, 61% of 5-year-olds and 66% of children in year 8 were caries-free

Children with fluoridated water supplies continued to have better oral health than those without fluoridated supplies. Waikato and Capital & Coast District Health Boards had the highest caries-free percentages.

For more information, please visit our website.

 

Special Issue announcement: Children's Environmental Health

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Children's Environmental Health
For more information
 

Healthspace

 

Major upgrade for Healthspace

Our data visualisation website Healthspace is currently undergoing a major upgrade. The old website is operational, but we do apologise for any possible interferences.

Healthspace logo
Visit Healthspace
 
Hazardous Substances Surveillance System

Hazardous substances surveillance system

General Practice Conference & Medical Exhibition (GPCME)

In June, Rose joined the BPAC (Best Practice Advocacy Centre New Zealand) exhibition stand at the GPCME 2019 in Rotorua. Rose explained the HSDIRT tool (Hazardous Substances Disease and Injury Reporting Tool).

View Hazardous Substances Surveillance information
 
Rose Mwipiko

Publication

Russell M, Read D, Cook H. 2019. Firearms and lead. The New Zealand Medical Journal 132 (1496): 69-71.

Read it here
 

News from the team

 
Rose Mwipiko

Congratulations and safe travels to Rose Mwipiko!

Rose was announced as the Winner of the 2019 NZ Esri Young Scholar Awards. Her project uses ArcGIS to explore the effects of the built environment on depression in the Wellington Region.

As the winner of this award, Rose will be attending the Esri Education Summit and Esri User Conference in San Diego, USA in July 2019.

Congratulations Carolin Haenfling!

Congratulations to Carolin on her promotion to Senior Analyst

Carolin Haenfling
 
 
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