Noise and Its Effects benefits from a plethora of international experts from a wide variety of disciplines who have contributed to the knowledge base in this area.

Noise and Its Effects gives an overview for the novice in the field, which providing a broad background across a range of disciplines for individual experts to use as a reference on a topic other that their own—medical, legal and social.

Noise and Its Effects has been liberally illustrated to facilitate appreciation of the key points discussed.

Contents

1. Physical characteristics of sound
2. Measurement of noise
3. Interactions between noise exposure and ageing: peripheral and central auditory systems
4. Interaction of noise-induced hearing loss and ageing: epidemiological aspects
5. Cochlear pathophysiology in response to hazardous noise
6. Functional changes in the central auditory system after noise-induced cochlear damage
7. Factors determining an individual’s susceptibility to noise damage
8. Measurement of hearing thresholds
9. Noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus in children – a matter of diagnostic criteria?
10. Clinical diagnosis of noise-induced hearing loss
11. Disability assessment in noise-induced hearing loss
12. Tinnitus and external sounds
13. The effects of blast on the ear
14. Interaction of noise, general medical disorders and state of health with hearing
15. Methodology and value of databases: an individual hearing conservation programme
16. Environmental noise: a contextual public health perspective
17. Estimating the risk of hearing impairment due to impulse noise exposure
18. Occupational noise
19. Military noise-induced hearing loss
20. The hazardous aspects of music
21. Organic solvent exposures and occupational hearing loss
22. Noise hazards in the medical environment
23. Stress effects of noise
24. Stress and noise – the psychological/physiological perspective and current limitations
25. Noise and cognitive performance in children and adults
26. Noise and sleep
27. Measurements, standards and laws
28. Preventing hearing loss by sound conditioning
29. Industrial noise control
30. Hearing protectors
31. Audiological rehabilitation programmes and the ICF
32. Target groups in prevention of health effects from listening to music
33. Agencies involved with noise

Index

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