Years of life lost and morbidity cases attributable to transportation noise and air pollution: A comparative health risk assessment for Switzerland in 2010

Vienneau, Danielle; Pérez, Laura; Schindler, Christian; Lieb, Christoph; Sommer, Heini; Probst‐Hensch, Nicole; Künzli, Nino; Röösli, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.ijheh.2015.05.003

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“…While a risk increase of 2.5% per 10 dB road traffic noise exposure for cardiovascular mortality seems negligible, the public health impact is substantial. Transportation noise in 2010 in Switzerland was attributed to 6000 years of life lost which represents 1.8 billion CHF of external costs when also accounting for loss in housing prices due to noise exposure [43]. Our study contributes to a better understanding of the role of noise characteristics; this should be considered in future noise regulation which currently focuses only on average noise levels.…”

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Transportation noise exposure and cardiovascular mortality: a nationwide cohort study from Switzerland

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Most studies published to date consider single noise sources and the reported noise metrics are not informative about the peaking characteristics of the source under investigation. Our study focuses on the association between cardiovascular mortality in Switzerland and the three major transportation noise sources-road, railway and aircraft traffic-along with a novel noise metric termed intermittency ratio (IR), expressing the percentage contribution of individual noise events to the total noise energy from all sources above background levels. We generated Swiss-wide exposure models for road, railway and aircraft noise for 2001. Noise from the most exposed façade was linked to geocodes at the residential floor height for each of the 4.41 million adult (>30 y) Swiss National Cohort participants. For the follow-up period 2000-2008, we investigated the association between all noise exposure variables [L(Road), L(Rail), L(Air), and IR at night] and various cardiovascular primary causes of death by multipollutant Cox regression models adjusted for potential confounders including NO. The most consistent associations were seen for myocardial infarction: adjusted hazard ratios (HR) (95% CI) per 10 dB increase of exposure were 1.038 (1.019-1.058), 1.018 (1.004-1.031), and 1.026 (1.004-1.048) respectively for L(Road), L(Rail), and L(Air). In addition, total IR at night played a role: HRs for CVD were non-significant in the 1st, 2nd and 5th quintiles whereas they were 1.019 (1.002-1.037) and 1.021 (1.003-1.038) for the 3rd and 4th quintiles. Our study demonstrates the impact of all major transportation noise sources on cardiovascular diseases. Mid-range IR levels at night (i.e. between continuous and highly intermittent) are potentially more harmful than continuous noise levels of the same average level.

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Transportation noise exposure and cardiovascular mortality: a nationwide cohort study from Switzerland

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“…For epidemiological data collected publically using surveys, as we report in this study, the HRQOL approach has specific advantages in terms of ease of data collection and low cost, as well as using a “first-person” approach to health assessment. Furthermore, Vienneau et al [45] note that, while air pollution is related to mortality measures and noise pollution to morbidity and degraded quality of life, in terms of total external costs, the burdens are equivalent.…”

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The Covariance between Air Pollution Annoyance and Noise Annoyance, and Its Relationship with Health-Related Quality of Life

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Air pollution originating from road traffic is a known risk factor of respiratory and cardiovascular disease (both in terms of chronic and acute effects). While adverse effects on cardiovascular health have also been linked with noise (after controlling for air pollution), noise exposure has been commonly linked to sleep impairment and negative emotional reactions. Health is multi-faceted, both conceptually and operationally; Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) is one of many measures capable of probing health. In this study, we examine pre-collected data from postal surveys probing HRQOL obtained from a variety of urban, suburban, and rural contexts across the North Island of New Zealand. Analyses focus on the covariance between air pollution annoyance and noise annoyances, and their independent and combined effects on HRQOL. Results indicate that the highest ratings of air pollution annoyance and noise annoyances were for residents living close to the motorway, while the lowest were for rural residents. Most of the city samples indicated no significant difference between air pollution- and noise-annoyance ratings, and of all of the correlations between air pollution- and noise-annoyance, the highest were found in the city samples. These findings suggest that annoyance is driven by exposure to environmental factors and not personality characteristics. Analysis of HRQOL indicated that air pollution annoyance predicts greater variability in the physical HRQOL domain while noise annoyance predicts greater variability in the psychological, social and environmental domains. The lack of an interaction effect between air pollution annoyance and noise annoyance suggests that air pollution and noise impact on health independently. These results echo those obtained from objective measures of health and suggest that mitigation of traffic effects should address both air and noise pollution.

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“…If any, such analyses are performed in developed countries i.e. Japan (Iwai et al 2005), France (Morelli et al 2016), Spain (López et al 2017), United States (Wilson et al 2015) or Switzerland (Vienneau et al 2015), which inhabitants are aware of risks from environmental health hazards.…”

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Assessment of the Kraków inhabitants’ health risk caused by the exposure to inhalation of outdoor air contaminants

Gruszecka‐Kosowska

2016

Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess

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Health risk associated with the exposure to the polluted atmospheric air inhalation was estimated for the residents of Kraków, Poland. The air pollution concentration data were obtained from the air-quality monitoring system of the city in 2007-2016. The carcinogenic risk of the studied subpopulations was not acceptable under the formula of C 6 H 6 [ BaP [ As(PM10) [ Cd(PM10) [ Pb(PM10) [ Ni(PM10). The total carcinogenic risk (Rt) amounted to 3.04E-04 for children, 2.22E-04 for infants, 1.45E-04 for women, and 1.22E-04 for men. The same risk was calculated for the top three locations of the monitoring stations in this respect, within the city of Kraków: Kurdwanów Housing Estate, Nowa Huta district, and Krasińskiego Av. Non-carcinogenic risk in the case of all six monitoring stations and in respect of all the studied subpopulations, resulting from the exposure to PM10 and for NO 2 for all stations in case of children and infants, as well as, for adults at Krasińskiego Av. and Dietla Str. stations was rated medium. For C 6 H 6 in the case of adults, children, and infants the risk was rated low. The total risk (HI) of non-carcinogenic pollution was rated medium and ranged as follows: 6.53 for children, 4.70 for infants, 3.19 for women, and 2.67 for men. That type of risk was decreasing at the station locations as follows: Krasińskiego Av. [ Dietla Str. [ Nowa Huta district [ Kurdwanów Housing Estate [ Złoty Róg Str. [ Piastów Housing Estate.

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Years of life lost and morbidity cases attributable to transportation noise and air pollution: A comparative health risk assessment for Switzerland in 2010

Abstract: YLL due to transportation related pollution in Switzerland is dominated by air pollution from road traffic, whereas consequences for morbidity and indicators of quality of life are dominated by noise. In terms of total external costs the burden of noise equals that of air pollution.

Cited by 60 publications

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Transportation noise exposure and cardiovascular mortality: a nationwide cohort study from Switzerland

Transportation noise exposure and cardiovascular mortality: a nationwide cohort study from Switzerland

The Covariance between Air Pollution Annoyance and Noise Annoyance, and Its Relationship with Health-Related Quality of Life

Assessment of the Kraków inhabitants’ health risk caused by the exposure to inhalation of outdoor air contaminants

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