Forest Health Calculator – Open Wellbeing Accounting Tool

Last updated: 23.8.2025

This is a joint project for developing web dashboards for the health benefits of forest visits.

The goal of the project is to produce a free online calculator for estimating population-level health benefits from forest visits.

Avoin and partners develop a national online tool to estimate the public health impacts of forest exposure. The tool is based on open data from the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finnish Forest Center, and open models by the Sosped Center, University of Jyväskylä, University of Helsinki, and Natural Resources Institute Finland, and delivered as a visual Power BI web dashboard by Avoin and Greenstep.

Status and news

Beta release expected in 2025.

Illustration: The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation (FANC)

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Duration

1/2025-12/2026

Offered expertise

Stakeholder co-creation, Scientific collaboration, Data integration, Digitalised modelling, Microsoft Power BI, Visual analytics, Production

Openness

Free tool, mainly open data and models, except code

Partners

University of Helsinki, Natural Resources Institute Finland, SosPed Center, University of Jyväskylä, Avoin, The Finnish Nature League (Luontoliitto), outsourced partners Greenstep and Haven

Funder

Kone Foundation – “For the Woods” (Metsän Puolella)

Links

https://metsaterveyslaskuri.fi