Associations and effect modification between transportation noise, self-reported response to noise and the wider determinants of health: A narrative synthesis of the literature

Peris, Eulàlia; Fenech, Benjamin

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141040

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“…One particular aspect of the living environment, the acoustic environment, is especially relevant, since it influences resident's experience and places such as residential care facilities, nursing homes, or hospitals are often occupied by fragile groups: people with disabilities or the elderly (Aletta et al, 2017). The acoustic environment can seriously affect the health of the elderly (Peris and Fenech, 2020;Devos et al, 2019;Xie et al, 2020). Too much harmful noise may harm their health; in particular, it may prevent elderly people with hearing loss in nursing facilities from functioning properly (Wang and Kang, 2020).…”

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Acoustic environment of comprehensive activity spaces in nursing homes: A case study in Harbin, China

Kang

2021

Applied Acoustics

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Acoustic environment of comprehensive activity spaces in nursing homes: A case study in Harbin, China

Kang

2021

Applied Acoustics

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“…Road traffic noise, as the primary urban noise source and the most annoying sound source, has a pronounced effect on residents, particularly those living in roadside highrise buildings, due to their compact urban form (Brown et al, 2015;Tong and Kang, 2021). The built environment could modify the relationship between noise exposure and self-reported responses to noise, related to the wider determinants of health (Peris and Fenech, 2020). Levels of traffic noise in residential areas are associated with numerous urban morphological and traffic parameters, such as road networks, building layouts, building density, terrain conditions and traffic flow, speed and load (Ariza-Villaverde et al, 2014;Hao and Kang, 2014).…”

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Noise exposure of the residential areas close to urban expressways in a high-rise mountainous city

Xie

2021

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Urban expressways can generate excessive noise in the surrounding urban areas, and it tends to be more complex in mountainous cities, due to the undulating terrain, dense population and compact urban structures. This article aims to investigate the objective acoustic environment and road traffic noise exposure, including the noisy evaluation, annoyance and effect of roadside apartments in residential areas close to urban expressways in the high-density, high-rise, mountainous city of Chongqing. Three housing estates were selected for a series of field measurements, questionnaire surveys and noise mapping. There was a significant negative correlation between night-time noise levels and the distances to the urban expressway ( p < 0.01). Moreover, the differences between the daytime and night-time noise levels were generally insignificant (0.7 to 3.6 dBA) at the roadside locations. Differences in reaction to noise exposure in a variety of both person-related and housing condition variables were found, especially between roadside and non-roadside locations or residents. In addition, 75.0% of roadside residents identified the traffic noise as ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ annoying, and 66.7% of them regarded the acoustic environment as the priority environmental factor that needs to be improved. Difference in the ‘bedroom-window orientation’ had a significant effect on subjective noise evaluation. Rectangular-shaped apartments along the roadside obtain better noise reduction capacities than tower-blocks through the simulation. The acoustic performance of road cuttings, as an appropriately designed earth embankment, is improved along with deeper vertical alignment, and slope angles of 30° and 75° should be avoided.

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“…Finally, self-reported response to noise can be modified by contextual factors separate from noise level alone, including lifestyle, access to green space, access to quiet areas, social interaction, recreational activities, and local economy of the neighbourhood. 76 One or several of these factors could have contributed to study heterogeneity within specific sleep outcomes, across studies of different traffic modes, or across studies that used either general sleep questions or noise-specific disturbance questions.…”

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Environmental Noise and Effects on Sleep: An Update to the WHO Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Basner

2022

Environ Health Perspect

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Background: Nighttime noise carries a significant disease burden. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published guidelines for the regulation of environmental noise based on a review of evidence published up to the year 2015 on the effects of environmental noise on sleep. Objectives: This systematic review and meta-analysis will update the WHO evidence review on the effects of environmental noise on sleep disturbance to include more recent studies. Methods: Investigations of self-reported sleep among residents exposed to environmental traffic noise at home were identified using Scopus, PubMed, Embase, and PsycINFO. Awakenings, falling asleep, and sleep disturbance were the three outcomes included. Extracted data were used to derive exposure–response relationships for the probability of being highly sleep disturbed by nighttime noise [average outdoor A-weighted noise level ( ) 2300–0700 hours] for aircraft, road, and rail traffic noise, individually. The overall quality of evidence was assessed using Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluations (GRADE) criteria. Results: Eleven studies ( responses) were included in addition to 25 studies ( responses) from the original WHO analysis. When sleep disturbance questions specifically mentioned noise as the source of disturbance, there was moderate quality of evidence for the probability of being highly sleep disturbed per 10-dB increase in for aircraft [ ; 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.01, 2.36], road ( ; 95% CI: 2.28, 2.79), and railway ( ; 95% CI: 2.57, 3.43) noise. When noise was not mentioned, there was low to very low quality of evidence for being sleep disturbed per 10-dB increase in for aircraft ( ; 95% CI: 1.20, 1.93), road ( ; 95% CI: 1.08, 1.21), and railway ( ; 95% CI: 0.91, 1.49) noise. Compared with the original WHO review, the exposure–response relationships closely agreed at low (40 dB ) levels for all traffic types but indicated greater disturbance by aircraft traffic at high noise levels. Sleep disturbance was not significantly different between European and non-European studies. Discussion: Available evidence suggests that transportation noise is negatively associated with self-reported sleep. Sleep disturbance in this updated meta-analysis was comparable to the original WHO review at low nighttime noise levels. These low levels correspond to the recent WHO noise limit recommendations for nighttime noise, and so these findings do not suggest these WHO recommendations need revisiting. Deviations from the WHO review in this updated analysis suggest that populations exposed to high levels of aircraft noise may be at greater risk of sleep disturbance than determined previously. https://doi....

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Associations and effect modification between transportation noise, self-reported response to noise and the wider determinants of health: A narrative synthesis of the literature

Cited by 28 publications

References 89 publications

Acoustic environment of comprehensive activity spaces in nursing homes: A case study in Harbin, China

Acoustic environment of comprehensive activity spaces in nursing homes: A case study in Harbin, China

Noise exposure of the residential areas close to urban expressways in a high-rise mountainous city

Environmental Noise and Effects on Sleep: An Update to the WHO Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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