Assessment of noise pollution in and around a sensitive zone in North India and its non-auditory impacts

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 566-567, Issue , 2016, Pages 981-987

  Khaiwal, Ravindra ^a   Singh, Tanbir ^b   Tripathy, Jaya Prasad ^a,c   Mor, Suman ^b   Munjal, Sanjay ^a   Patro, Binod ^d   Panda, Naresh ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^d ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Hospital; Hypertension and non auditory impacts; Loss of sleep; Noise pollution

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTICS; DISEASES; HEALTH HAZARDS; HEALTH RISKS; HOSPITALS; NOISE POLLUTION; POLLUTION; SURVEYS;

HYPERTENSION AND NON-AUDITORY IMPACTS; NOISE POLLUTION LEVEL; NON AUDITORY EFFECTS; NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; RESIDENTIAL AREAS; SOUND LEVEL METER; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SOURCE OF NOISE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; HEALTH RISK; HOSPITAL SECTOR; HYPERTENSION; NOISE POLLUTION; ROAD TRAFFIC; SLEEP;

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEADACHE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; NOISE POLLUTION; NOSE IRRITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SOUND INTENSITY; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TRAFFIC NOISE; HUMAN; NOISE;

INDIA;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INDIA; NOISE; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84975516432     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.070     Document Type: Article

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