More and more busy roads, increasingly dense air traffic, construction and infrastructure work as numerous as necessary, speedboats on the lakes, snowmobiles near homes, the alarm system of the vehicle, not to mention the mower or the snowblower – depending on the season -, the washing machine, the dishwasher, the garbage disposal and the last favorite toy piston of son …
Whether at home, on the road or at work, the sources of noise have multiplied exponentially in recent decades and, with them, the risks and health problems that arise from them at every stage of our lives.
As part of the 8e Annual Public Health Days (JASP), held in Montreal, featured a workshop entirely devoted to the effects of noise on health. Here are some issues arising from this “new” problematic, once considered as a simple temporary nuisance of varying intensity.
- Noise, a new public health problem? An interview with Xavier Bonnefoy, WHO
- The ears of toddlers: not immune
- Auditory-transmitted diseases …
- From deafness to insomnia
- Europe: an example to follow
For an overview of noise research, download the review Rowdy (Vol. 2, No special, November 29, 2004), produced by the Public Health Department of the Chaudière-Appalaches region. http://www.santeautravail.net/Aposer.aspx?page=1068&langue=fr.
