Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
- 1 March 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Southern Medical Association in Southern Medical Journal
- Vol. 100 (3), 287-294
- https://doi.org/10.1097/smj.0b013e3180318be5
Abstract
Noise is defined as unwanted sound. Environmental noise consists of all the unwanted sounds in our communities except that which originates in the workplace. Environmental noise pollution, a form of air pollution, is a threat to health and well-being. It is more severe and widespread than ever before, and it will continue to increase in magnitude and severity because of population growth,...This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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