Environmental Burden of Disease in Europe: Assessing Nine Risk Factors in Six Countries

Hänninen, Otto; Knol, Anne; Jantunen, Matti; Lim, Tek-Ang; Conrad, André; Rappolder, Marianne; Carrer, Paolo; Fanetti, Annaclara; Kim, Rokho; Buekers, Jurgen; Torfs, Rudi; Iavarone, Ivano; Claßen, Thomas; Hornberg, Claudia; Mekel, Odile

doi:10.1289/ehp.1206154

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“…The L50 noise levels (total data) range from about 54 decibels in acoustic shadows in residential tertiary streets up to 74 decibels on the high traffic roads (Bell and Galatioto 2013); levels at which physiological effects of road noise are strongly felt (Fritschi et al 2011). The health effects of traffic-related noise are increasingly being recognised as attributable to a large burden of disease that may be comparable to that of air pollution (Hänninen et al 2015). In conservative Although long-term effects of traffic-related air pollution and noise could be mutually confounded, cardiovascular effects by ambient noise have been shown independent of air pollution exposures (van Kempen and Babish 2012, Sørensen et al 2012, Foraster et al 2014, Liu et al 2014.…”

Section: Traffic-related Noisementioning

confidence: 99%

The health impacts of traffic-related exposures in urban areas: Understanding real effects, underlying driving forces and co-producing future directions

Khreis¹,

Warsow²,

Verlinghieri³

et al. 2016

Journal of Transport & Health

134

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The world is currently witnessing its largest surge of urban growth in human history; a trend that draws attention to the need to understand and address health impacts of urban living. Whilst transport is instrumental in this urbanisation wave, it also has significant positive and negative impacts on population health, which are disproportionately distributed.In this paper, we bring together expertise in transport engineering, transport and urban planning, research and strategic management, epidemiology and health impact assessment in an exercise to scope and discuss the health impacts of transport in urban areas. Adopting a cross-disciplinary, coproduction approach, we explore the key driving forces behind the current state of urban mobility and outline recommendations for practices that could facilitate positioning health at the core of transport design, planning and policy.Current knowledge on the health-related impacts of urban transport shows that motor vehicle traffic is causing significant premature mortality and morbidity through motor vehicle crashes, physical inactivity and traffic-related environmental exposures including increases in air pollution, noise and temperature levels, as well as reductions in green space. Trends of rapid and car-centred urbanisation, mass motorisation and a tendency of policy to favour car mobility and undervalue health in the transport and development agenda has both led to, and exacerbated the negative health impacts of the transport systems. Simultaneously, we also argue that the benefits of new transport schemes on the economy are emphasised whilst the range and severity of identified health impacts associated with transport are often downplayed. We conclude the paper by outlining stakeholders recommendations for the adoption of a cross-disciplinary co-production approach that takes a health-aware perspective and has the potential to promote a paradigm shift in transport practices.

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Section: Traffic-related Noisementioning

confidence: 99%

The health impacts of traffic-related exposures in urban areas: Understanding real effects, underlying driving forces and co-producing future directions

Khreis¹,

Warsow²,

Verlinghieri³

et al. 2016

Journal of Transport & Health

134

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“…[10][11][12] Our approach needed to be comprehensive from the outset (Box 1). We also report what we propose is the first known systematic application of any set of explicit environmental attributable fractions to regional health services data.…”

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Environmental attributable fractions in remote Australia: the potential of a new approach for local public health action

McMullen

Eastwood

Ward

2016

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objectives: To determine local values for environmental attributable fractions and explore their applicability and potential for public health advocacy. Methods:Using World Health Organization (WHO) values for environmental attributable fractions, responses from a practitioner survey (73% response rate) were considered by a smaller skills-based panel to determine consensus values for Kimberley environmental attributable fractions (KEAFs). Applied to de-identified data from 17 remote primary healthcare facilities over two years, numbers and proportions of reasons for attendance directly attributable to the environment were calculated for all ages and children aged 0-4 years, including those for Aboriginal patients.Results: Of 150,357 reasons for attendance for patients of all ages, 31,775 (21.1%) were directly attributable to the environment. The proportion of these directly due to the environment was significantly higher for Aboriginal patients than others (23.1% v 14.6%; p<0.001). Of 29,706 reasons for attendance by Aboriginal children aged 0-4 years, 7,599 (25.6%) were directly attributable to the environment, significantly higher than for non-Aboriginal children aged 0-4 years (25.6% v 18.6%; p<0.001). Conclusions:By addressing environmental factors, 20% of total primary healthcare demand could be prevented and, importantly, some 25% of presentations by Aboriginal children. Implications:KEAFs have potential to monitor impact of local environmental investments.

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“…The negative effects of noise have been studied and outlined for some time. More recent reports have again summarized these findings such as the WHO Environmental Burden of Disease in Europe [1], the reports from Basner et al [2,3], and several others.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Step one: translation between descriptors according to equation (1). A compromise value for the receiving room volume V=52,5 m 3 and the volume/area ratio V/S=2,5 m was used.…”

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Translation between existing and proposed harmonized airborne sound insulation descriptors: A statistical approach based on in-situ measurements

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A standard defining a common acoustic classification scheme for dwellings is under development by ISO TC42/SC2/WG29 based on the outcomes of European project COST Action TU0901. The proposal stands on the assumption that in the long term many countries will establish building acoustic requirements using a harmonized set of descriptors. In this scenario most countries will need to estimate the influence on their current airborne sound insulation requirements due to the new descriptor. This paper investigates a statistical method to obtain translation equations between existing and proposed descriptors, based on the analysis of a significant set of in-situ measurements. Several translation equations are proposed, and the effect of the building system such as heavy and light weight walls. Results show that, although it is possible to propose a single translation equation for each existent descriptor, in some cases the spread around the proposed translation line is significant. Overall, the effect of building system is more noticeable if different frequency range descriptors are involved in the translation. For some existent descriptors, the obtained translation is compared with the theoretical method proposed within the findings of COST TU0901. When considering only lightweight walls or the full data set, there is no good agr eement between both methods, but for heavyweight walls they converge. Existing requirements in most European countries have been translated into the proposed descriptor DnT,50 ≈ DnT,w + C50-3150 using the obtained equations. This provides valuable information and an insight for government and building regulation policy makers when updating their legislation.

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Environmental Burden of Disease in Europe: Assessing Nine Risk Factors in Six Countries

Cited by 366 publications

References 29 publications

The health impacts of traffic-related exposures in urban areas: Understanding real effects, underlying driving forces and co-producing future directions

The health impacts of traffic-related exposures in urban areas: Understanding real effects, underlying driving forces and co-producing future directions

Environmental attributable fractions in remote Australia: the potential of a new approach for local public health action

Translation between existing and proposed harmonized airborne sound insulation descriptors: A statistical approach based on in-situ measurements

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