by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition As I’ve written before, I don’t like special days or months. I think that if something is important, it should be thought about all the time, not just on a special day or month. But I’ve also acknowledged that these...
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The effects of noise on health
Photo credit: See-ming Lee licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Most people, most audiologists, and most doctors don’t know that noise has non-auditory health effects, but it does. The scientific evidence is ample and...
Noise as a public health problem
Photo credit: Neil R licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition What’s the difference between a health problem and a public health problem? A health problem affects an individual, a patient. A public health problem affects populations,...
If we could only see the damage caused by noise
Photo credit: Tanya Gupta from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition My noise colleague and coauthor Jan Mayes has an insightful article in the current issue of Tinnitus Today, the quarterly magazine of the American Tinnitus Association. As Jan’s lead...
This is National Public Health Week
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Every year the American Public Health Association celebrates National Public Health Week. The theme this year is “Public Health is Where You Are.” This year The Quiet Coalition was excited about the APHA’s revised policy...
Headphones used in schools are too loud
Photo credit: Sound On from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times’ Wirecutter published an article about headphones used in schools. Wirecutter evaluates products independently but does get commissions if products mentioned are...
Urban noise is a top environmental risk
Photo credit: Nick Wehrli from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Kamyar Razavi and Kayla McLean affirmatively state In their Canadian Global News article that...
Transportation noise exposure correlated with heart attacks
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In research to be presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 71st Scientific Session, from April 2-4, 2022, researchers from Rutgers University found that transportation noise exposure may account for 5% of heart...
Hearing loss associated with less physical activity
Photo credit: Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A new study based on data collected by the National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey found that hearing loss is associated with less physical activity. NHANES is a...