scholarly journals Road traffic noise and annoyance: Exposure-response relationship and burden of disease calculations in Bulgaria

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angel Dzhambov ◽  
Donka Dimitrova
Keyword(s):  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Road Traffic Noise ◽  
Response Relationship ◽  
Exposure Response

scholarly journals Evaluation of the social and economic burden of road traffic noise-attributed myocardial infarction in Bulgarian urban population / Procjena socijalnog i ekonomskog tereta infarkta miokarda povezanog s cestovnom bukom u bugarskog urbanog stanovništva

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angel M. Dzhambov ◽  
Donka D. Dimitrova
Keyword(s):  
Myocardial Infarction ◽  
Economic Burden ◽  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
World Health ◽  
Road Traffic Noise ◽  
Life Years

Abstract Road traffic noise is a widely studied environmental risk factor for ischaemic heart disease and myocardial infarction in particular. Given that myocardial infarction is a leading disability and mortality cause in Bulgaria and that a significant proportion of the urban population is exposed to high noise levels, quantification of the burden of disease attributable to traffic noise is essential for environmental health policy making and noise control engineering. This study aimed at estimating the burden of the myocardial infarction cases attributable to road traffic noise in the Bulgarian urban population. We used the methodology for estimating the burden of disease attributable to environmental noise outlined by the World Health Organization. Risk data were extracted from a recently published meta-analysis providing updated exposureresponse relationship between traffic noise and the risk for myocardial infarction. Based on these data we calculated the fraction of myocardial infarction cases attributable to traffic noise, loss of quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), and the economic burden, assuming € 12,000 per QALY. About 2.9 % or 101 of all myocardial infarction cases could be attributed to road traffic noise. Fifty-five of these were fatal. Nine hundred and sixty-eight QALYs were lost to these cases. The monetary value of these QALYs was about € 11.6 million. Although the measures used in this study are crude and give only an approximation of the real burden of disease from road traffic noise, they are indicative of the important social and economic aspect of noise pollution in Bulgaria. Hopefully, these results will direct the attention of epidemiologists, environmental hygienists, and health economists to this pivotal environmental issue.

scholarly journals Combined Effects of Aircraft, Rail, and Road Traffic Noise on Total Noise Annoyance—A Cross-Sectional Study in Innsbruck

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (18) ◽  
pp. 3504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lechner ◽  
Schnaiter ◽  
Bose-O’Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Road Traffic ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Road Traffic Noise ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Exposure Response ◽  
Noise Annoyance ◽  
Total Noise ◽  
Noise Assessment

Noise legislation in Austria does not provide an assessment of the cumulative effect of noise from different sources. The desire of citizens for a total noise assessment is getting stronger. Within the pilot project “Gesamtlärmbetrachtung” (Total Noise Investigation) Innsbruck, data from 1031 face-to-face interviews were correlated with exposure data from road, rail and air traffic noise. The interviews were selected in clusters according to the exposure combinations of these three sources. In addition to exposure-response relationships, it has also been found that the annoyance response to air and rail traffic noise is independent of the background noise from road traffic. The total noise annoyance response shows a cumulative effect in each source considered. From the source specific exposure-response relationships, a total noise assessment model based on the annoyance equivalents model was developed. This model is more suitable than the dominant source model and thus also considerable for legal application.

scholarly journals Effects of Motorcycle Noise on Annoyance—A Cross-Sectional Study in the Alps

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1580
Author(s):  
Christoph Lechner ◽  
David Schnaiter ◽  
Uwe Siebert ◽  
Stephan Böse-O’Reilly
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Road Traffic Noise ◽  
Response Curves ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Exposure Response ◽  
Background Exposure ◽  
Noise Assessment

Motorcycle noise is an increasing noise problem, especially in Alpine valleys with winding roads and low environmental noise. The annoyance response to motorcycle engine noise is extraordinarily high in comparison to other traffic noise and cannot be explained by standard noise assessment curves. Therefore, the Tyrolean state government decided to initiate a multi-purpose study. Exposures were calculated based on sound-measurements taken across the entire district of Reutte in the western part of the State of Tyrol and a telephone survey (n = 545) was conducted with regional participants. The influence of demographic characteristics; sensitivity to noise; attitudes towards motorcycles and background noise on the annoyance was examined using bivariate analyses. In addition; exposure-response curves and their 95% confidence intervals with cut-off points of 60% and 72% for “highly annoyed” were created. The exposure annoyance response curves for motorcycle noise show a shift of more than 30 dB in annoyance reaction compared to other road traffic noise. The annoyance response to motorcycle noise in this Alpine region is concentrated on summer Sundays and Saturdays and is independent of the background exposure caused by other road traffic

scholarly journals The Burden of Disease Due to Road Traffic Noise in Hesse, Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (17) ◽  
pp. 9337
Author(s):  
Janice Hegewald ◽  
Melanie Schubert ◽  
Matthias Lochmann ◽  
Andreas Seidler
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Sleep Disturbance ◽  
Dose Response ◽  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Road Traffic Noise ◽  
Response Functions

Road-traffic-noise exposition is widespread in Germany and can have harmful health effects. As guidance for informed decision-making, we estimated the environmental burden of disease attributable to road-traffic noise in Hesse, Germany as disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs). Using detailed road-traffic-noise exposure data provided by the Hessian Agency for Nature Conservation, Environment, and Geology (HLNUG), we calculated the DALYs due to road-traffic noise > 40 dB(A) L24h (unweighted average 24 h noise level) and other noise metrics for endpoints with known dose-response functions and evidence in the literature (NORAH-study on disease risks and WHO reviews): cardiovascular disease, depressive disorders, road-traffic annoyance, and sleep disturbance. We calculated the population-attributable fractions (PAF) for road-noise-related cardiovascular disease (hypertensive heart disease, ischemic heart disease, and stroke) and depressive disorders in the population using published relative risk estimates. We multiplied the PAFs with the Hessian proportion of the 2015 WHO DALY estimates for Germany in people aged ≥ 40 years. For high annoyance and high sleep disturbance, we used published dose-response functions to determine the burden for residents of all ages. For Hesse, we found a total of 26,501 DALYs attributable to road-traffic noise or 435 DALY per 100,000 persons for the reference year, 2015. Further, we estimated that a hypothetic uniform road-traffic-noise reduction of 3 dB would prevent 23% of this burden of disease.

scholarly journals Burden of Disease Due to Traffic Noise in Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (13) ◽  
pp. 2304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobollik ◽  
Hintzsche ◽  
Wothge ◽  
Myck ◽  
Plass
Keyword(s):  
Heart Disease ◽  
Ischemic Heart Disease ◽  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Environmental Noise ◽  
Ischemic Heart ◽  
World Health ◽  
Road Traffic Noise ◽  
Life Years

Traffic noise is nearly ubiquitous and thus can affect the health of many people. Using the German noise mapping data according to the Directive 2002/49/EC of 2017 and exposure-response functions for ischemic heart disease, noise annoyance and sleep disturbance assessed by the World Health Organization’s Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region the burden of disease due to traffic noise is quantified. The burden of disease is expressed in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and its components. The highest burden was found for road traffic noise, with 75,896 DALYs when only considering moderate evidence. When including all available evidence, 176,888 DALYs can be attributable to road traffic noise. The burden due to aircraft and railway noise is lower because fewer people are exposed. Comparing the burden by health outcomes, the biggest share is due to ischemic heart disease (90%) in regard to aircraft noise, however, the lowest evidence was expressed for the association between traffic noise and ischemic heart disease. Therefore, the results should be interpreted with caution. Using alternative input parameters (e.g., exposure data) can lead to a much higher burden. Nevertheless, environmental noise is an important risk factor which leads to considerable loss of healthy life years.

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