Airport noise and epidemiological study of health effects: A feasibility study
VALLET ; COHEN ; MOSNIER ; TRUCY
Type de document
COMMUNICATION AVEC ACTES INTERNATIONAL (ACTI)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
VALLET ; COHEN ; MOSNIER ; TRUCY
Résumé / Abstract
The potential health effects of airport noise is still a question of debate; this paper presents an epidemiological survey, carried out by medical doctors around Paris Roissy airport. This feasibility study consisted of a comparison between patients exposed to aircraft traffic noise and those not exposed. Noise levels are expressed using computed contours. This feasibility study is a comparison between the frequencies of illness and drug consumption of people exposed to aircraft noise and people not exposed to this type of noise. Epidemiological studies aim to demonstrate the effects of noise on health. Apart from the impact of noise on sleep, which is often of short duration, epidemiology deals with non-auditory effects on health and the most convincing results appear, in the bibliography, for high workplace noise levels. Noise can, for example, cause high systolic or diastolic blood pressure.
