ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
Burden of Disease Due to Traffic Noise in Germany.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- Urban Noise and Psychological Distress: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Estimating the environmental burden of disease in children and adolescents in Germany: limitations and possible solutions.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Estimated health burden of environmental noise exceeds that of ambient air pollution in Ireland.Discover public health · 2026Article
- Projecting the economic burden of health impacts of aircraft noise: a case study of Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025Article
- Health position paper and redox perspectives - Disease burden by transportation noise.Redox biology · 2024Review
- Estimates of Population Highly Annoyed from Transportation Noise in the United States: An Unfair Share of the Burden by Race and Ethnicity.Environmental impact assessment review · 2024Article
- Environmental Burden of Disease due to Emissions of Hard Coal- and Lignite-Fired Power Plants in Germany.International journal of public health · 2023Article
- Correction: Tobollik et al. Burden of Disease Due to Traffic Noise in Germany.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Burden of Disease Due to Road Traffic Noise in Hesse, Germany.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Commentary: Post- COVID-19 mobility and traffic noise-induced health effects.International journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- University Students' Self-Rated Health in Relation to Perceived Acoustic Environment during the COVID-19 Home Quarantine.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
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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