Article | REF: G2720 V1

Effect of noise on humans

Author: Jacques JOUHANEAU

Publication date: October 10, 2008

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!


Overview

Français

Read this article from a comprehensive knowledge base, updated and supplemented with articles reviewed by scientific committees.

Read the article

AUTHOR

  • Jacques JOUHANEAU: Professor of Acoustics at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers

 INTRODUCTION

Of all the stresses to which man is exposed in his daily environment, noise is undoubtedly the most present, the most widespread and the most insidious. Suspected for several decades of being responsible for various physiological and physical disorders, noise has been the subject of numerous approaches and research aimed at understanding its modes of action and mechanisms. Despite this work, noise remains one of the most poorly understood nuisances, both in terms of its effects on the individual and its economic and social repercussions.

This lack of knowledge is based first and foremost on the difficulty of measuring the actual short-, medium- or long-term –– consequences of noise aggression on organisms that are likely to adapt and thus mask all or part of these effects. It is reinforced by the fact that noise has a large number of subjective components, and as such can be perceived in very different ways from one individual to another, with varying reactions giving rise to interpretations that are all too often contradictory or ambiguous.

You do not have access to this resource.

Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!


The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference

A Comprehensive Knowledge Base, with over 1,200 authors and 100 scientific advisors
+ More than 10,000 articles and 1,000 how-to sheets, over 800 new or updated articles every year
From design to prototyping, right through to industrialization, the reference for securing the development of your industrial projects

This article is included in

Environment

This offer includes:

Knowledge Base

Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees

Services

A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources

Practical Path

Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills

Doc & Quiz

Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading

Subscribe now!

Ongoing reading
Effect of noise on humans