Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution in Finland

Heli Lehtomäki, Antti Korhonen, Arja Asikainen, Niko Karvosenoja, Kaarle Kupiainen, Ville-Veikko Paunu, Mikko Savolahti, Mikhail Sofiev, Yuliia Palamarchuk, Ari Karppinen, Jaakko Kukkonen and Otto Hänninen
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Heli Lehtomäki: National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Antti Korhonen: National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Arja Asikainen: National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Niko Karvosenoja: Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE), 00251 Helsinki, Finland
Kaarle Kupiainen: Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE), 00251 Helsinki, Finland
Ville-Veikko Paunu: Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE), 00251 Helsinki, Finland
Mikko Savolahti: Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE), 00251 Helsinki, Finland
Mikhail Sofiev: Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), 00560 Helsinki, Finland
Yuliia Palamarchuk: Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), 00560 Helsinki, Finland
Ari Karppinen: Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), 00560 Helsinki, Finland
Jaakko Kukkonen: Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), 00560 Helsinki, Finland
Otto Hänninen: National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), 70701 Kuopio, Finland

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-16

Abstract: 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 (O 3 ). In this work, we quantify the impacts of particles, ozone, and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) 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.

Keywords: disease burden; mortality; morbidity; particulate matter; fine particles; ozone; nitrogen dioxide (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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