Photo credit: Leif Jørgensen licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition
The World Health Organization just issued its new noise guidelines for Europe (pdf). This poster summarizes the 100+ page report which contains the scientific evidence:
The research was done by many of the world’s leading noise experts, and in turn reviewed by more experts who developed these evidence-based noise exposure guidelines.
There can be no rational doubt that noise is a major health problem in Europe and the United States, causing hearing loss, sleep disruption, cardiovascular disease, and death.
We hope the United States will follow the Europe’s example and start dealing with the noise problem, too.
