January 20th, 2023
Sydney researchers are developing a heat stress scale similar to a UV index. With an accompanying app, it is designed to help the public handle the heat and avoid the…
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January 6th, 2023
Long term Healthabitat collaborators, Sago Network, continue to focus on PNG’s waterless and Permanent Sanitation Solution Front cover of the Sago Dry Toilet Brochure Sago Network continues to…
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December 23rd, 2022
Renter Researchers as a part of the Healthy Homes for Renters campaign have been tracking the temperature of their homes across winter and summer in 2022 Drawing capturing Renter…
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December 7th, 2022
In 32 years… Over 10,000 houses! 264 Projects! 315,918 items fixed! Over 50,000 people benefitted! Finke Survey-Fix 2 Team Photo In November 2022, Housing for Health (HfH) projects reached…
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December 6th, 2022
HH visits Melbourne 3-D printing factories As the climate gets hotter and the price of construction and demand for more housing continues to grow, it is important to find new…
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December 2nd, 2022
An archive highlight from 2010 showing the ongoing pursuit of finding the best possible taps to specify in housing. Project data shows that taps are performing poorly. Poorly performing taps…
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November 18th, 2022
‘Healthy Homes for Renters’ project is attempting to build political support for minimum energy efficient standards for rental properties. Better Renting is calling on governments to implement minimum energy efficiency…
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October 21st, 2022
Housing for Health projects are strengthened by the support and knowledge of Environment Health staff. While Environmental health workers are on Housing for Health projects as team leaders…
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October 15th, 2022
The 2022 theme is ‘Unite for Universal Hand Hygiene‘. At current rates of progress, the world will only reach 78% coverage in 2030, leaving 1.9 billion people without basic hand…
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September 16th, 2022
NT Shelter interviews Dr Simon Quilty as a part of Homelessness Week 2022 (1-7 Aug). With over 20 years working in remote medicine in the NT, Dr Quilty regularly experiences…
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September 2nd, 2022
Australian State and Territory Building Ministers agreed last week to improve the energy efficiency requirements of new homes. The NT however, a region with arguably Australia’s most extreme climate has…
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August 19th, 2022
A highlight from the archives 2009-11- ‘Stove Function – finding a better solution’ Housing for Health survey data shows stoves are performing poorly in Indigenous communities nationally with an average…
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