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Table 1 Potential of the Finnish Allergy Programme to address Planetary Health

From: Digital transformation of health and care to sustain Planetary Health: The MASK proof-of-concept for airway diseases—POLLAR symposium under the auspices of Finland’s Presidency of the EU, 2019 and MACVIA-France, Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD, WH0) demonstration project, Reference Site Collaborative Network of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing

Finnish Allergy Programme

Impact on Planetary Health

Endorse health, not allergy

Endorse the Planet

Improve contact with nature

Contribute to conserving and regenerating nature

Strengthen tolerance/resilience

Understand and strengthen the role of biodiversity

Avoid allergens only if mandatory

Promote Planet sustainable diets

Prevent allergies

Reduce the planetary impact of medical treatments and harmful chemicals in planet to human, human to planet chain

Recognize and treat severe allergies early

Reduce the planetary impact of avoidable health care wastage

Improve air quality

Reduce air pollution, both outdoors and indoors

Stop smoking

Eradicate smoking and its environmental impacts