Evidence Relating to Environmental Noise Exposure and Annoyance, Sleep Disturbance, Cardio-Vascular and Metabolic Health Outcomes in the Context of IGCB (N): A Scoping Review of New Evidence regarding sources other than transport noise

It had been a while that the first WHO guidelines for health protection against environmental noise were published in 1999. Since then many new studies on the health effects of sound exposure at home have been performed and an update of the WHO environmental noise guideline saw the light in November 2019. The earlier guidelines were primarily focused on transportation noise. At the ministerial Conference at Parma in 2010 the need for guidelines for other sources such as devices, toys and wind turbines was emphasized. In order to achieve this, reviews were prepared on the main health outcomes including annoyance, sleep, cardiovascular disease, cognitive effects, birth effects, hearing impairment and the effectivity of noise interventions in terms of human response and health. These systematic literature reviews over the period between 1980 and 2014 were published in a special issue of IJERPH spread out over late 2017 and early 2018. This presentation will provide an overview of the evidence including an update since 2014 for some key endpoints and other sources. The implications of the findings for noise policy and management will be discussed. And finally some trends and research needs in the field of sound and health will be presented.