SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2017
WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region: A Systematic Review of Transport Noise Interventions and Their Impacts on Health.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies Addressing Environmental Noise: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region: A Systematic Review on Environmental Noise and Annoyance.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Pooled it
- Mental health effects of exposure to environmental noise at home: A systematic review of potential mediating pathways.Noise & healthPooled it
- Environmental Noise Exposure and the Risk of Sleep Disturbance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Noise & healthPooled it
- An environmental vulnerability index framework supporting targeted public health interventions at the census tracts level.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- Relationships Between Road and Railway Noise Exposure and Self-Reported Sleep Disturbance for Detached Houses in Japan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Sleep Disturbance Caused by Step Changes in Railway Noise Exposure and Earthquakes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Antimicrobial Use and Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales in Korea: A Nationwide Case-Control Study With Propensity Score Matching.Journal of Korean medical science · 2024Article
- Exploring the Relationship Between Education, Living Environment, and Anxiety/Depression Among Stable Patients: Insights from the COPD-AD China Registry Study.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2024Article
- Models of Aviation Noise Impact in the Context of Operation Decrease at Tan Son Nhat Airport.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Detecting geographical clusters of low birth weight and/or preterm birth in Japan.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- What Constitutes the High-Quality Soundscape in Human Habitats? Utilizing a Random Forest Model to Explore Soundscape and Its Geospatial Factors Behind.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Limiting motorboat noise on coral reefs boosts fish reproductive success.Nature communications · 2022Article
- The Burden of Disease Due to Road Traffic Noise in Hesse, Germany.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Effect of noise on the electrocardiographic parameters.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2021Article
- Aircraft Noise Distribution as a Fairness Dilemma-A Review of Aircraft Noise through the Lens of Social Justice Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Space-time characterization of community noise and sound sources in Accra, Ghana.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Short-Term Annoyance Due to Night-Time Road, Railway, and Air Traffic Noise: Role of the Noise Source, the Acoustical Metric, and Non-Acoustical Factors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- How Does a Community Respond to Changes in Aircraft Noise? A Comparison of Two Surveys Conducted 11 Years Apart in Ho Chi Minh City.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- A Psychoacoustic Approach to Building Knowledge about Human Response to Noise of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
This paper describes a systematic review (1980-2014) of evidence on effects of transport noise interventions on human health. The sources are road traffic, railways, and air traffic. Health outcomes include sleep disturbance, annoyance, cognitive impairment of children and cardiovascular diseases. A conceptual framework to classify noise interventions and health effects was developed. Evidence was thinly spread across source types, outcomes, and intervention types. Further, diverse intervention study designs, methods of analyses, exposure levels, and changes in exposure do not allow a meta-analysis of the association between changes in noise level and health outcomes, and risk of bias in most studies was high. However, 43 individual transport noise intervention studies were examined (33 road traffic; 7 air traffic; 3 rail) as to whether the intervention was associated with a change in health outcome. Results showed that many of the interventions were associated with changes in health outcomes irrespective of the source type, the outcome or intervention type (source, path or infrastructure). For road traffic sources and the annoyance outcome, the expected effect-size can be estimated from an appropriate exposure-response function, though the change in annoyance in most studies was larger than could be expected based on noise level change.
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