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Health impact assessment of transportation noise in two Estonian cities
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- Veber, Triin (författare)
- Institute of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Tamm, Tanel (författare)
- Institute of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Ründva, Marko (författare)
- Kajaja Acoustics, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Kriit, Hedi Katre (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Avdelningen för hållbar hälsa
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- Pyko, Anderi (författare)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Orru, Hans (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Avdelningen för hållbar hälsa,Institute of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Elsevier, 2022
- 2022
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Environmental Research. - : Elsevier. - 0013-9351 .- 1096-0953. ; 204:Part C
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Abstract
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- Transportation noise is a growing public health concern worldwide, especially in urban areas, causing annoyance, sleep disturbance, cardiovascular diseases and other health effects. Recently, European Commission (EC) has developed a mutual methodology for assessing health impacts of transportation noise in European Union using strategic noise mapping. Applying this methodology, our aim was to quantify the health effects of road, rail and aircraft noise in two Estonian cities, Tallinn and Tartu. We also aimed to assess sensitivity of this methodology, while implementing lower threshold values and employing additional health outcomes.The proportion of highly annoyed residents due to road traffic noise was 11.6% in Tallinn, and 9.2% in Tartu; around 2.5% residents in both cities could have high sleeping disturbances. As exposure to railway and aircraft noise was relatively low in both cities, people with high annoyance and high sleep disturbance caused by railway and aircraft noise was below 1%. Ischemic heart disease (IHD) cases attributable to road traffic noise was estimated to be 122.6 in Tallinn and 21.5 in Tartu. Altogether transportation noise was estimated to cause 1807 disability adjusted life years (DALYs) in Tallinn and 370 DALYs in Tartu. The health costs were calculated as €126.5 and €25.9 million annually, respectively in the two cities.When we included higher number of health outcomes (stroke incidence, IHD deaths) and lowered exposure threshold by 5 dB, the annual burden of disease was doubled. As the latest epidemiological studies showed transportation noise having larger number of effects on lower noise levels, the results with the currently applied European Commission health impact assessment (HIA) methodology were rather conservative. Despite of uncertainties associated to applied methodology, transportation noise, especially road traffic noise, is an important environmental risk factor, that leads to considerable loss of healthy life years and causes large health costs in urban areas.
Ämnesord
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Arbetsmedicin och miljömedicin (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Occupational Health and Environmental Health (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Attributable cases
- Burden of disease
- Health costs
- Health impact assessment
- Transportation noise
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