Abstract
Exposure to environmental noise due to transport affects public health.
Cardiovascular diseases, sleep disturbance and annoyance are the
most-reported harmful effects of noise exposure. Here, the burden
of disease due to transportation noise in Flanders is quantified
based on the disability adjusted life year methodology (DALY), combining
the burden due to premature death and disability in a single index.
The estimated number of DALYs due to transportation noise in Flanders
in 2004 was 20,517, corresponding to 1.7% of the burden of disease
in Flanders or 21.8% of the environmental burden of disease due to
particular matter, ozone, carcinogenic air pollutants and noise.
Nevertheless, the results must be interpreted carefully because of
the rather large uncertainty range attributable to the variety in
exposure level, the uncertainty of exposure–response functions and
the choice of the severity weight.
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