Wiki source code of 4.1.2 ENNH – Effects of night noise on health
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1.1 | 1 | = 4.1.2 ENNH – Effects of night noise on health = |
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| 6 | |(% style="width:79px" %)Social|(% style="width:139px" %)4 - Public Health and Well-Being|(% style="width:666px" %)4.1 - Acoustics | ||
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| 10 | ====== **Description** ====== | ||
| 11 | )))|(% style="width:730px" %)The NNL describes the following health effects from the acoustic indicator LNIGHT and thus the night noise level in urban areas (dB). The night-level indicator (LNIGHT) is designed to assess sleep disturbance. The WHO-Night Noise Guidelines (2009) discusses in great detail the relations between, noise, sleep quality and health. The report states that sleep is an important biological function and impaired sleep — which is considered a health effect by itself — is related to a number of diseases. Although the function of sleep is still somewhat obscure, sleep deprivation is definitely a condition that deeply afflicts health. Animal experiments show that sleep deprived animals live less, and sleep deprived humans typically show dramatic function loss after a few days. As it can be demonstrated that noise disturbs sleep, the inference is that noise, via the sleep pathway, causes the same diseases. The recommendations are expressed in terms of LNIGHT (the night time noise indicator from the END), and the report describes also a number of exposure-response relationships for instantaneous reactions. In part the relationships in the WHO-document are derived from the EU-position paper on night time noise. European threshold LNIGHT: High Noise level: 50 decibels (dB) (EEA, 2010) | ||
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| 13 | ===== **Scale as linked to D2.2 framework** ===== | ||
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| 15 | * City | ||
| 16 | * Neighborhood | ||
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| 19 | ====== **Data source [ link to data framework]** ====== | ||
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| 21 | * Simulation | ||
| 22 | * Digital model + noise simulation | ||
| 23 | * Threshold levels/classes out of WHO Report. Measurement | ||
| 24 | * LNIGHT | ||
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| 27 | ====== **Needs** ====== | ||
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| 29 | * LNIGHT (Measurement or Simulation) | ||
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| 32 | ====== **Expected Outputs** ====== | ||
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| 34 | * Quantitative | ||
| 35 | * measurements one to several times in planning purpose | ||
| 36 | * Area over threshold (m2) | ||
| 37 | * Relative change ~(%) | ||
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| 40 | ====== **Calculation methods** ====== | ||
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| 42 | * Threshold level and relative area ratio to other scenarios | ||
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| 45 | ====== **Links and references** ====== | ||
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| 47 | * European Environment Agency (2010): Good Practice guide on noise exposure and potential health effects. EEA Technical Report No. 11/2010. ISSN 1725-2237 https:~/~/www.eea.europa.eu/publications/good-practice guide-on-noise/download | ||
| 48 | * WHO (2009): Night noise guidelines for Europe, http:~/~/www.euro.who.int/~_~_data/assets/pdf_file/0017/4331 6/E92845.pdf | ||
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