Indices by location

Indices by location

Canada 

Principle article: Air Quality Health Index (Canada) 

Air quality in Canada has been accounted for a long time with common Air Quality Indices (AQIs). Fundamentally, AQI esteems reflect air quality administration goals, which depend on the most minimal achievable emanations rate, and not only worry for human wellbeing. The Air Quality Health Index or (AQHI) is a scale intended to help comprehend the effect of air quality on wellbeing. It is a wellbeing assurance device used to settle on choices to decrease here and now presentation to air contamination by altering action levels amid expanded levels of air contamination. The Air Quality Health Index additionally gives guidance on the best way to enhance air quality by proposing conduct change to lessen the ecological impression. This record gives careful consideration to individuals who are touchy to air contamination. It gives them exhortation on the best way to secure their wellbeing amid air quality levels related with low, direct, high and high wellbeing dangers. 

The Air Quality Health Index gives a number from 1 to 10+ to show the level of wellbeing hazard related with nearby air quality. Every so often, when the measure of air contamination is unusually high, the number may surpass 10. The AQHI gives a neighborhood air quality current incentive and a nearby air quality maximums conjecture for now, today around evening time, and tomorrow, and gives related wellbeing advice. 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 + 

Risk: Low (1– 3) Moderate (4– 6) High (7– 10) Very high (over 10) 

Wellbeing Risk Air Quality Health Index Health Messages 

At Risk population *General Population 

Low 1– 3 Enjoy your typical outside activities. Ideal air quality for open air exercises 

Moderate 4– 6 Consider lessening or rescheduling strenuous exercises outside on the off chance that you are encountering symptoms. No need to alter your typical open air exercises except if you encounter side effects, for example, hacking and throat disturbance. 

High 7– 10 Reduce or reschedule strenuous exercises outside. Youngsters and the elderly ought to likewise take it easy. Consider diminishing or rescheduling strenuous exercises outside on the off chance that you encounter manifestations, for example, hacking and throat disturbance. 

Extremely high Above 10 Avoid strenuous exercises outside. Youngsters and the elderly ought to likewise stay away from open air physical exertion. Reduce or reschedule strenuous exercises outside, particularly on the off chance that you encounter side effects, for example, hacking and throat disturbance. 

Hong Kong 

On the 30 December 2013 Hong Kong supplanted the Air Pollution Index with another record called the Air Quality Health Index.This list, announced by the Environmental Protection Department, is estimated on a size of 1 to 10+ and thinks about four air poisons: ozone; nitrogen dioxide; sulfur dioxide and particulate issue (counting PM10 and PM2.5). For any given hour the AQHI is figured from the aggregate of the rate overabundance danger of day by day clinic confirmations owing to the 3-hour moving normal centralizations of these four toxins. The AQHIs are gathered into five AQHI wellbeing hazard classes with wellbeing counsel provided:

Wellbeing hazard category AQHI 

Low 1 

2 

3 

Medium 4 

5 

6 

High 7 

Extremely High 8 

9 

10 

Serious 10+ 

Every one of the wellbeing hazard classifications has exhortation with it. At the low and direct levels the general population are prompted that they can proceed with ordinary exercises. For the high classification, kids, the elderly and individuals with heart or respiratory sicknesses are encouraging to decrease open air physical effort. Over this (high or genuine) the overall population are likewise encouraged to lessen or maintain a strategic distance from open air physical effort.