Noise Pollution Quality Guidelines World Health Organization

• The report, based on a limited set of data, estimated that DALYs lost from environmental noise in western European countries are equivalent to
• 61,000 years for Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD),
• 45,000 years for cognitive impairment in children,
• 903,000 years for sleep disturbance,
• 22,000 years for tinnitus and
• 654,000 years for annoyance (WHO Regional Office for Europe & JRC, 2011).
• These results indicate that at least one million healthy years of life are lost every year from traffic-related environmental noise in western Europe.
• Sleep disturbance and annoyance, mostly related to road traffic noise, constitute the bulk of this burden.