Title
Noise exposure and public health
Author
Passchier-Vermeer, W.
Passchier, W.F.
TNO Preventie en Gezondheid
Publication year
2000
Abstract
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.
Subject
Urban Development
Acoustics and Audiology
Built Environment
Annoyance
Cardiovascular effects
Children's health
Environmental health
Environmental noise
Hearing impairment
Noise exposure
Noise metrics
Occupational noise
Performance
academic achievement
annoyance
birth defect
hearing impairment
human
hypertension
immune system
ischemic heart disease
mental stress
noise pollution
priority journal
public health
review
risk assessment
sleep disorder
sound intensity
Hearing Disorders
Humans
Noise
Public Health
Stress, Psychological
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TNO identifier
235521
ISSN
0091-6765
Source
Environmental Health Perspectives, 108 (SUPPL. 1), 123-131
Document type
article