Auditory and non-auditory effects of noise on health

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9925, 2014, Pages 1325-1332

  Basner, Mathias ^a   Babisch, Wolfgang ^b   Davis, Adrian ^c,d   Brink, Mark ^e   Clark, Charlotte ^f   Janssen, Sabine ^g   Stansfeld, Stephen ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNOYANCE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH CARE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NOISE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; AIRCRAFT NOISE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; HYPERTENSION; NOISE POLLUTION; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SOUND PRESSURE; TRAFFIC NOISE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COGNITION DISORDERS; EAR PROTECTIVE DEVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84898049209     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61613-X     Document Type: Review

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