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Title Burden of disease from environmental noise : quantification of healthy life years lost in Europe / [editors, Lin Fritschi ... and others]
Published Copenhagen, Denmark : World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe ; [Brussels, Belgium] : JRC European Commission, [2011]
©2011

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Description xvii, 106 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- Aims of this publication -- Risk assessment -- Environmental burden of disease assessment -- Process of developing this publication -- References -- 2.Environmental Noise And Cardiovascular Disease -- Definition of outcome -- Summary of evidence linking noise and cardiovascular disease -- Exposure-response relationship -- Disability weight -- EBD calculations -- Uncertainties, limitations and challenges -- Conclusions -- References -- 3.Environmental Noise And Cognitive Impairment In Children -- Definition of outcome -- Summary of evidence linking noise and cognitive impairment in children -- Exposure-response relationship -- Disability weight -- EBD calculations -- Uncertainties, limitations and challenges -- Conclusions -- References -- 4.Environmental Noise And Sleep Disturbance -- Definition of outcome -- Noise exposure -- Exposure-response relationship -- Disability weight -- EBD calculations -- Uncertainties, limitations and challenges -- Conclusions -- References -- 5.Environmental Noise And Tinnitus -- Definition of outcome -- Summary of evidence linking noise and tinnitus -- Exposure-response relationship -- Disability weight -- EBD calculations -- Uncertainties, limitations and challenges -- Conclusions -- References -- 6.Environmental Noise And Annoyance -- Definition of outcome -- Traffic noise exposure -- Exposure-response relationship -- Disability weight -- EBD calculations -- Uncertainties, limitations and challenges -- Conclusions -- References -- 7.Conclusions -- Environmental noise: a public health problem -- Effects of environmental noise on selected health outcomes -- Uncertainties, limitations and challenges -- Uses of this publication -- Noise and the Parma Declaration on Environment and Health
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Also available online
Subject Noise -- Physiological effect -- Europe -- Statistics.
Noise -- Health aspects -- Europe -- Statistics.
Noise -- Risk assessment -- Europe -- Statistics.
Health risk assessment -- Europe -- Statistics.
Environmental health -- Europe -- Statistics.
Cost of Illness.
Noise -- adverse effects.
Environmental Health -- economics.
Quality of Life.
Risk Assessment.
SUBJECT Europe. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005060
Genre/Form Statistics.
Author Fritschi, Lin.
ISBN 9289002298
9789289002295