What factors are associated with noise sensitivity in the UK population?

INTERNOISE 2014 - 43rd International Congress on Noise Control Engineering: Improving the World Through Noise Control

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Clark, Charlotte ^a   Smuk, Mel ^a   Stansfeld, Stephen ^a   Van De Kerckhove, Rik ^b   Notley, Hilary ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Defra ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

63 psychological effects; 66 sociological effects: Community reaction to noise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; AUDITION; BUILDINGS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HOUSING; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

66 SOCIOLOGICAL EFFECTS: COMMUNITY REACTION TO NOISE; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; MULTI-VARIABLE MODELS; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84923595250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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