Urban Noise pollution
has a significant impact on the quality of life and thus potentially on Public
health. Noise pollution parallels to air pollution is an important issue in an
increasing number of megacities around the world, and new policies to address
urban noise pollution are likely to be enacted in many developing countries
irrespective of the participation of these countries in any explicit future
noise pollution policies. Increasing vehicles and the population of people thatmake cities crowded directly affect the noise pollution and quality of life
which are often highly correlated due to shared generating processes . In
modern life many types of pollutions have raised, one of them is noise
pollution, which is the result of modern technology and urbanization of the
cities . Furthermore, increasing noise pollution has negative effects on
personal and public health.
The World Health
Organization has reported seven categories of adverse health effects of noise
pollution on humans. According to their report, noise pollution can be
responsible of hearing impairment, interference with spoken communication,
sleep disturbances, cardiovascular disturbances, disturbances in mental health,
impaired task performance, negative social behavior and annoyance reactions.
Noise pollution in university campuses can effect on education and research
process by all above diseases except sleep disturbance. According to a
research, students who have high resting blood pressure, high stress levels and
also experience reading delays are those who exposed to noise pollution during
learning. In addition, students who suffer from noise pollution learn to not
pay attention to the lecturer, which can harm their reading and language skills. For more.....
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