Lifestyles and Living Environments

The Lifestyles and Living Environments Unit 

• acts as a specialist in planetary health and welfare
• studies and supports healthy, safe and sustainable lifestyles and living environments 
• acts as a specialist in nutrition
• monitors and assesses the nutritional status of the population and promotes the prevention of obesity
• develops and maintains the national nutrition research infrastructure
• develops and assesses evidence-based practices to promote healthy and sustainable lifestyles and to prevent chronic diseases
• studies risk factors and health inequalities related to lifestyles and develops methods to identify and support specific risk groups
• acts as a specialist in healthy living environments, with a focus on climate change, urbanisation and a sustainable transition
• produces and assesses data on the threats to the living environment and on health impacts of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures
• produces and processes data on the exposure of the population to chemical compounds and specialises in the analysis of persistent organic pollutants.

Unit teams

• Chemical Risks
• Environmental Health
• Interventions
• Nutrition

Contact details

Anne Hyvärinen
Head of Unit
tel. +358 29 524 6364
E-mail: [email protected]

Postal address
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Lifestyles and Living Environments Unit
P.O. Box 75
FI-70701 Kuopio, Finland