Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution in Finland

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Niko Karvosenoja¹  Kaarle Kupiainen¹  Ville-Veikko Paunu¹  Mikko Savolahti¹  Yuliia Palamarchuk²  Mikhail Sofiev²  Jaakko Kukkonen²  Ari Karppinen²  Arja Asikainen³  Otto Hänninen³  Antti Korhonen³  Heli Lehtomäki³ 

[1] Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE), 00251 Helsinki, Finland;Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), 00560 Helsinki, Finland;National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), 70701 Kuopio, Finland;

关键词: disease burden;    mortality;    morbidity;    particulate matter;    fine particles;    ozone;    nitrogen dioxide;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph15040736

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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