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Contents

Executive Summary
1: Introduction
2: Work Strategy
3: Noise and health - The scientific evidence

3.1: Defining impacts on health
3.2: Potential effects of noise on health
3.3: Actual effects of noise on health
3.4: At what noise threshold level can noise affect health?
3.5: Linking the actual effects of noise to an overall impact on health

4: Practical noise criteria

4.1: Balancing the desirable and affordable
4.2: Existing Methods Used to Assess Environmental Noise

5: Guide to the interpretation of the WHO guidelines

5.1: Introduction
5.2: Guideline values
5.3: Interpretation
5.4: Summary

6: Can effect-based assessment methods be established?
7: The way ahead
8: References
9: Acknowledgments

Appendix I: Letters and tables used for reviewing environmental noise regulations and standards used in UK and other EU Countries
Appendix II: Findings from the review of environmental noise regulations and standards used in the UK and EU countries

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Published 12 September 2000

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