The acoustic pollution.
Noise and health.
The noise pollution is generated by the noise and it affects negatively our health.
The noise is a not wished, annoying and irritating sound. Its production is cheap, it doesn’t generate residuals and it doesn’t pollute neither the wind neither the water.
The effects of the noise pollution are undestimated but they are immediate and accumulative. The excessive noise provokes in you:
- Audition loss and deafness
- Memory loss
- Stress
- Sleep reduction.
The world health organization qualifies the noise like the nuinsance in the industrialized countries. Spain is the second country with index od acoustic pollution. Two types of measures exist to combat the noise:
- Passive measures: We should diminish the intensity of the noise but without eliminating the focuses. Example: Helmets, acoustic screens.
- Active measures: We should eliminate the issuing focoses of noise. Example: To disminish the traffic and to foment the public transportion.
Judit San Segundo García
Carolina Martín Martín