Advances in Noise Research, Volume 2 Protection Against Noise

, by Prasher, Deepak; Luxon, Linda M.; Pyykko, Ilmari

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ISBN: 9781861560766 | 1861560761
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/10/2006

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The second volume in the series focuses on protection against noise and covers the problem of noise worldwide, the issues relating to leisure noise, European databank, and hearing conservation.

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
The problem of noise
Noise-induced hearing loss - a global problem
The World Health Organization and the prevention of deafness and hearing impairment caused by noise
Quality of life, noise and hearing
Noise-induced hearing loss: current status in Greece
Hearing thresholds of workers employed at the public power corporation
Noise as a public health problem in Nordic Countries
Incidence of occupational deafness in Poland 1991-95
Leisure noise
Defining
The risk of sensorineural hearing loss from noisy toys and recreational activities in children and teenagers
Noisy toys: a case for determining the hazard and safety levels
Personal cassette players: a hazard to hearing?
Risk of hearing damage from attendance at discotheques and rock concerts
Childhood hearing loss in Portugal
Uropean databank
Development of a European databank for noise-induced hearing loss
Types of database that include nopise-induced hearing loss
Security need for a EU database
How to combine data harvested using different audiometric techniques
Hearing loss caused by solvents and other chemical agents
Evaluation of work history - what parameters are needed for the database
Estimating noise exposure: methods used in UK epidemiological surverys
Databse and model: Noisecan
Protection
Dependency on magnesium of hearing threshold shift after impulse noise exposure
Reduction in temporary and permanent noise-induced hearing loss by oral magnesium intake
Timely issues concerning hearing protectors
What kind of protectors are used in the EU and is their use mandatory?
The evaluation of protection efficiency of hearing protectors for hearing conversation programs
Selection of hearing protectors to be used in noise areas in road traffic or railway systems in Germany
EARTALK - hearing protector and communication system
Field assessment of hearing protector peak level attenuation in impulse noise
Hearing conservation
Hearing conservation
Development of a sophisticated hearing conservation programme
Motivation for the hearing conservation program - factors explaining the variability in hearing loss
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Advances in Noise Research, Volume 2 Protection Against Noise

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials