High noise levels in hospitals can affect patients’ well-being, staff productivity, and medical error rates. This study measured two intensive care units (ICUs) the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). An occupant’s survey a continuous field sampling were conducted May June 2021 each ICU, using T Tocas SL 1361 digital sound level meter an online questionnaire. In GH-ICU, variations for day, even...

Monitoring environmental parameters in urban centers has become a critical step for health risk assessment. In this study, conducted the industrial park of Mirandela (Portugal), an monitoring system consisting meteorological station, class 1 smart sound sensor and three reference optical gas analyzers were deployed to measure noise levels, tropospheric ozone concentrations, carbon monoxide, nit...

The DEFRA funded project “Human Response to Vibration in Residential Environments” investigates relationships between human response in residential areas, primarily in terms of annoyance, and combined effects from exposure to vibration and noise. This paper focuses on the results from the analysis of noise exposure in this study, in particular from construction work and railway traffic. The exp...

Appraisal of environmental noise effects on health considers single exposure. In large cities, exposure is frequently due to multiple sources. Their combination, interaction or successive presence known affect people’s health. The prediction their has been little studied and needs more investigation address the problem. Studies dealing with annoyance combined sources proposed different total mo...

Abstract Background Studies on transportation noise and incident stroke are few inconclusive. We aimed to investigate associations between road-traffic railway the risk of in entire Danish population. Methods estimated (Lden) at most least exposed façades for all residential addresses across Denmark (2.8 million) period 1990–2017. Based this, we 10-year time-weighted mean exposure 3.6 million D...

Few studies go beyond the residential environment in assessments of environment-mental health association, despite multiple environments being encountered daily life. This study investigated 1) associations between environmental exposures and depressive symptoms, both along mobility path, 2) examined differences strength residential- mobility-based models, 3) explored sex as a moderator. Depres...

Wind energy in Europe is expected to grow at a steady, high pace, but opposition from residents local wind farm plans one of the obstacles further growth. A large body evidence shows that populations want be involved and respected for their concerns, practice, this complex process cannot solved with simple measures, such as financial compensation. The visual presence acoustic impact an importan...

BACKGROUND aircraft noise has been associated with several health effects. Because of the great success of low-cost flights, small airports have been turned into international airports thus exposing nearby residents to an increase in noise levels and potential disturbances and health disorders. OBJECTIVE to estimate the exposure levels and evaluate the health impact of aircraft noise on resid...

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BACKGROUND Evidence for an association between transportation noise and cardiovascular disease has increased; however, few studies have examined metabolic outcomes such as diabetes or accounted for environmental coexposures such as air pollution, greenness, or walkability. OBJECTIVES Because diabetes prevalence is increasing and may be on the causal pathway between noise and cardiovascular di...