Noise and Sleep: 2nd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 3021
Special Issue Editors
Interests: the effects of environmental stressors (including noise and vibration) on sleep; the effects of sleep fragmentation on health, performance and work ability and the health consequences of environmental noise exposure
Interests: noise; sleep; sleep disturbances; insomnia; environmental exposures, environmental health; blue areas; green areas; neurodevelopment; epidemiology; registry research
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health welcomes submissions for a Special Issue. This Special Issue is the second with a focus on environmental noise and sleep (first edition available here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/noise_sleep).
The WHO estimates that the burden of disease from transportation noise is largely determined by noise-induced sleep disturbance. In Western Europe, they estimate that the health impact of noise-induced sleep disturbance from transportation noise corresponds to the annual loss of over 900,000 healthy life years. Furthermore, estimates from the European Environment Agency have shown that around 6.5 million people suffer from chronic high sleep disturbance due to long-term exposure to environmental noise. With the increasing rate of urbanization and traffic volumes, more people could potentially become exposed to harmful noise levels in the years to come. From a public health perspective, sleep disturbance per se is a relevant health outcome, but noise-induced sleep disturbances are also suspected to be on the causal pathway to cardiometabolic and cognitive disorders, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and dementia. To determine the role of sleep disturbances as a mediator in the relationship between noise and long-term health effects, more research is needed, especially among previously under-represented populations and age groups.
We invite prospective authors to present their latest work in these important research domains in this Special Issue. The Special Issue is open to manuscripts in the area of noise-induced sleep disturbances, measured physiologically or via self-report, in the laboratory or in the field, and from all noise sources. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, except in the form of congress papers. All manuscripts will be thoroughly peer-reviewed.
Dr. Michael Smith
Dr. Jorunn Evandt
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- noise-induced sleep disturbance
- transportation noise
- aircraft noise
- road noise
- railway noise
- hospital noise
- wind turbine noise
- chronic nocturnal noise exposure and health
- exposure-response relationships
- novel indicators of effects of noise on sleep
- standardisation of sleep disturbance measures
- night noise protection concepts
- sound as a sleep aid
- insomnia
- sleep medication use
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