Invited Perspective: Cutting through the Noise—the National Park Service Anthropogenic Noise Model for Exposure Assessment
Danielle Vienneau, Jean Marc Wunderli · 2023
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Danielle Vienneau and Jean Marc Wunderli comment on a new noise exposure model in a 2023 perspective piece. Unwanted sound is a widespread but neglected health risk, tied to annoyance, broken sleep, and heart and metabolic disease. Studying it across a whole country demands a way to estimate everyone's exposure, which has been the field's bottleneck.
The piece welcomes a rigorous United States study that applies the National Park Service's human-made noise model within a large nurses' cohort. The model turns geography and sound propagation into exposure estimates for huge populations, the missing piece for North American noise research, which lags Europe's. The authors note that traffic noise evidence was already rated strong in European guidelines, yet cohort data stayed sparse. With urbanization and aging raising the stakes, they argue, solid exposure models unlock the epidemiology needed for policy.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Danielle Vienneau, Jean Marc Wunderli |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 7 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |