Effects of Road Traffic Noise on Health: From Burden of Disease to Effectiveness of Interventions

Road traffic noise is one of the most ubiquitous urban environmental pollutants. This paper brings together three related works – in which the author has been involved or is currently completing - that together illustrate essential input to good policy development for the management of the health co...

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Published in:Procedia environmental sciences 2015, Vol.30, p.3-9
Main Author: Brown, A. Lex
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
annoyance
DALY
EBD
environmental burden of disease
exposure
exposure-response relationships
health outcome
mitigation
noise
risk assessment
road traffic
sleep disturbance
transport
urbanization
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Summary:Road traffic noise is one of the most ubiquitous urban environmental pollutants. This paper brings together three related works – in which the author has been involved or is currently completing - that together illustrate essential input to good policy development for the management of the health consequences of this pollutant. These include a guidance document on burden of disease from environmental noise; an assessment of exposure, response, and exposure-response, to road traffic noise in a densely-populated Asian city; and a current systematic evidence review of the effectiveness, in health terms, of interventions to control environmental noise. These provide examples of the nature of the quantitative evidence available to promote noise management through policy interventions.
ISSN:1878-0296
1878-0296
DOI:10.1016/j.proenv.2015.10.001