Development of the WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region: An Introduction
| Autor: | Jördis Wothge, Marie-Eve Héroux, Jos Verbeek, Poonum Wilkhu, James Creswick, Dorota Jarosinska, Elizabet Paunovic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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noise Aircraft 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Applied psychology Declaration Psychological intervention Guidelines as Topic Annoyance 010501 environmental sciences World Health Organization 01 natural sciences wellbeing Noise control Humans Grading (education) Environmental noise WHO environmental noise guidelines 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Environmental Noise Directive Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health noise abatement health Environmental Exposure Mental health Europe Systematic review Noise Transportation Noise Occupational Psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph15040813 |
| Popis: | Following the Parma Declaration on Environment and Health adopted at the Fifth Ministerial Conference (2010), the Ministers and representatives of Member States in the WHO European Region requested the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop updated guidelines on environmental noise, and called upon all stakeholders to reduce children’s exposure to noise, including that from personal electronic devices. The WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region will provide evidence-based policy guidance to Member States on protecting human health from noise originating from transportation (road traffic, railway and aircraft), wind turbine noise, and leisure noise in settings where people spend the majority of their time. Compared to previous WHO guidelines on noise, the most significant developments include: consideration of new evidence associating environmental noise exposure with health outcomes, such as annoyance, cardiovascular effects, obesity and metabolic effects (such as diabetes), cognitive impairment, sleep disturbance, hearing impairment and tinnitus, adverse birth outcomes, quality of life, mental health, and wellbeing; inclusion of new noise sources to reflect the current noise environment; and the use of a standardized framework (grading of recommendations, assessment, development, and evaluations: GRADE) to assess evidence and develop recommendations. The recommendations in the guidelines are underpinned by systematic reviews of evidence on several health outcomes related to environmental noise as well as evidence on interventions to reduce noise exposure and/or health outcomes. The overall body of evidence is published in this Special Issue. |
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