Air Quality Health Index (Canada)

The Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) is a scale designed in Canada to help understand the impact of air quality on health. It is a health protection tool used to make decisions to reduce short-term exposure to air pollution by adjusting activity levels during increased levels of air pollution. The Air Quality Health Index also provides advice on how to improve air quality by proposing behavioral change to reduce the environmental footprint. This index pays particular attention to people who are sensitive to air pollution. It provides them with advice on how to protect their health during air quality levels associated with low, moderate, high and very high health risks.

This article is about the air pollution index used in Canada. For the one used in Hong Kong, see Air Quality Health Index (Hong Kong). For air pollution indices in general, see Air quality index.
Air Quality Health Index
La Cote air santé
Formation2005
HeadquartersOttawa, Ontario, Canada
Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Steven Guilbeault
Websitewww.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/air-quality-health-index.html
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