Health promotion and member services

Guidance and Counselling

Pulmonary Association Heli and the local associations offer a remarkable amount of guidance, counselling and training services for people with respiratory diseases as well as for various professional target groups.

Asthma week, which is organised each year in May, is the organisation's biggest national campaign. Dozens of various counselling, training and information events are organised all around Finland during that week.

Service phone is a-free-of-charge service, in which experts on respiratory illnesses, smoking prevention and indoor or outdoor air issues answer to various questions every first Tuesday of the month, 15 - 18 o'clock, tel. 0800 14562.

Indoor & outdoor air

Heli organises training courses, produces information material, coordinates development and research projects on issues concerning the indoor and outdoor air and healthy buildings. We also aim to influence the lawmakers and authorities in the issues concerning better outdoor and indoor air. We also offer services of five indoor air consultants.

Smoking prevention

National influencing and the cooperation with the healthcare sector, other associations and private companies are in the core of Heli's smoking prevention strategy. Creating awareness-raising campaigns, guidance and counselling services for young adults as well for the people in the working life are our main focuses in the smoking prevention.

Physical Exercise & Sports

Heli is a support member for National Sports Federation in Finland. Physical exercise is a health promoting activity, and it is especially emphasised in the self-care and rehabilitation of the people with respiratory diseases. Heli and its local associations organise sports camps, sports education courses and groups of physical exercise on regular basis for various groups of people. Heli also organises sports campaigns in co-operation with other partners and associations.

Information services

Communications is based on expertise, credibility and timely reaction to relevant issues. A membership journal is published 6 times a year. With its edition of almost 60 000, it has established itself as a well-respected expert journal. Also, a special magazine for young members, is published once a year.

Heli publishes a vast amount of brochures. Hundreds of thousands of copies are distributed each year free of charge to our members, to patients with respiratory diseases and to various professional groups.

Fundraising

Each year various fundraising campaigns and joint projects are organised. Through these efforts funds are collected as well from private persons as from corporate sources, especially to promote the well being of the children with respiratory diseases. Also various products are sold, like printed forms of condolences, Christmas cards etc. The latest innovation in fundraising is a goods lottery on the internet; the lottery ticket can be bought and scraped on line.