Tips for residents
You can reduce your symptoms and exposure to air pollutants with everyday choices. What kind of residential area do you live in? Do you live near a busy road? Where do you exercise and move about outdoors? What kind of ventilation do you have in your home? Are you using your fireplace correctly?
In Finland, the concentrations of air pollutants do not cause significant health effects for most people. Some of us are more sensitive to the effects of air pollutants than others. Due to illness or age, part of the population suffers more severe health effects from air pollutants than average. The groups most sensitive to the health effects of air pollutants are small children, elderly people, and those with respiratory and heart conditions.
How can you assess air quality?
On these pages you will find tips on how to assess the air quality in your residential area and how to reduce your exposure to air pollutants.
Easy steps toward cleaner air (in Finnish),
More information
Information about health effects (THL)
Information about the pollen situation (University of Turku)
Information about reducing exposure through filtration (Organisation for Respiratory Health in Finland)
Information about asthma in Finnish (Allergy, Skin and Asthma Federation)
