Noise exposure and public health.
By W. Passchier-Vermeer, W. Passchier. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2000
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Exposure to noise constitutes a health risk. There is sufficient scientific evidence that noise exposure can induce hearing impairment, hypertension and ischemic heart disease, annoyance, sleep disturbance, and decreased school performance. For other effects such as changes in the immune system and birth defects, the evidence is limited. Most public health impacts of noise were already identified in the 1960s and noise abatement is less of a scientific but primarily a policy problem. A subject for further research is the elucidation of the mechanisms underlying noise-induced cardiovascular disorders and the relationship of noise with annoyance and nonacoustical factors modifying health outcomes. A high priority study subject is the effects of noise on children, including cognitive effects and their reversibility. Noise exposure is on the increase, especially in the general living environment, both in industrialized nations and in developing world regions. This implies that in the twenty-first century noise exposure will still be a major public health problem. ImagesFigure 2
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, Speech and Hearing
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- Effects of floor impact noise on psychophysiological responses (2017, background): “Several researchers have found non-auditory health effects of noise on people in laboratory and empirical studies [1,2].”
- Happiness is greater in natural environments (2013, background): “Chronic traffic noise exposure in urban environments can cause severe sleep disturbance, hearing impairment, tinnitus, and raised stress levels, leading to high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, stroke, and possibly immune system and birth defects (Passchier-Vermeer & Passchier, 2000).”
- Effects of noise and music on human and task performance: A systematic review (2008, background): “Historically, noise has been considered a nuisance in society and there are a vast number of publications depicting the negative side effects of this extraneous, unwanted sound [27,43,58,60,64,74].”