IJERPH, Vol. 15, Pages 736: Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution in Finland

IJERPH, Vol. 15, Pages 736: Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution in Finland

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph15040736

Authors: Heli Lehtomäki Antti Korhonen Arja Asikainen Niko Karvosenoja Kaarle Kupiainen Ville-Veikko Paunu Mikko Savolahti Mikhail Sofiev Yuliia Palamarchuk Ari Karppinen Jaakko Kukkonen Otto Hänninen

Air pollution has been estimated to be one of the leading environmental health risks in Finland. National health impact estimates existing to date have focused on particles (PM) and ozone (O3). In this work, we quantify the impacts of particles, ozone, and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in 2015, and analyze the related uncertainties. The exposures were estimated with a high spatial resolution chemical transport model, and adjusted to observed concentrations. We calculated the health impacts according to Word Health Organization (WHO) working group recommendations. According to our results, ambient air pollution caused a burden of 34,800 disability-adjusted life years (DALY). Fine particles were the main contributor (74%) to the disease burden, which is in line with the earlier studies. The attributable burden was dominated by mortality (32,900 years of life lost (YLL); 95%). Impacts differed between population age groups. The burden was clearly higher in the adult population over 30 years (98%), due to the dominant role of mortality impacts. Uncertainties due to the concentration–response functions were larger than those related to exposures.

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