Noise Pollution and Health Effects!
Noise pollution is one of the most pervasive yet underestimated environmental health hazards in modern society, emerging as a direct consequence of rapid urbanization, industrial growth, transportation expansion, and unregulated technological development, and it is now formally recognized by World Health Organization as a major environmental determinant of health alongside air and water pollution, with sound levels above recommended limits affecting billions of people daily in cities such as Delhi , Mumbai , New York City , Tokyo , and London , where traffic congestion, aviation activity, construction operations, industrial machinery, amplified social events, and densely packed residential settings generate continuous sound exposure that frequently exceeds safe thresholds of 55 dB during the day and 40 dB at night, transforming Noise from a mere nuisance into a chronic environmental stressor that disrupts physiological homeostasis and psychological well-being, with ...