THE BAD EFFECT OF NOISE POLUTION

THE BAD EFFECT OF NOISE POLUTION TO HUMAN HEALTH

Noise is defined as unwanted sound. The potential health effects of noise pollution are numerous, pervasive, persistent, and medically and socially significant.  

Noise produces direct and cumulative adverse effects that impair health and that degrade residential, social, working, and learning environments with corresponding real (economic) and intangible (well-being) losses.  It interferes with sleep, concentration, learning, communication, and recreation.

 Attending a sports event is now a terrifying nightmare. We hope that people go to a spectator sport event to be entertained by the sport and not to suffer the tyranny of obnoxious atmospheric venue noise. Hopefully people want to experience a good spectacle of sports and not being tortured by loud, cacophonic incessant and unnecessary noise. Furthermore, that noise, as proven by the incidents during the Men's FIFA World Cup played a few years ago in South Africa, interferes with the game itself.

Aside for the unpleasantness, noise pollution is responsible for many unhealthy things:

Hearing Impairment:  Hearing loss. Deafness

Interference with Spoken Communication: Discomfort and distracted, thus he cannot concentrate on his work or study.

Sleep Disturbances: Insomnia, decreased sleep quality

Cardiovascular Disturbances: High blood pressure, Coronary artery disease

Disturbances in Mental Health: anxiety, stress, nervousness, nausea, headache, emotional instability, argumentativeness, sexual impotence, changes in mood, increase in social conflicts, neurosis, hysteria, and psychosis.

Altered women’s physiological function: abnormal menstruation, abortion, premature delivery, and even abnormal embryo

 Impaired Task Performance: Noise affects learning, reading, problem solving, motivation, school performance and social and emotional development

Negative Social Behavior and Annoyance Reactions: Distress