مجلة جامعة الأنبار للعلوم الإنسانية (Sep 2022)
Noise pollution and its health effects on the residents of Al-Qaim district
Abstract
The noise noise pollution in the study area is a harmful environmental phenomenon affecting the population, and its harm is not limited to the physical aspects alone, but its impact is also related to the mental and mental aspects. Through the results of the questionnaire and the field study, it was found that continuous exposure to disturbing sounds in the environment in which a person lives contributes to the exacerbation of a number of psycho-neurological symptoms that directly affect the behavior of individuals, not only on the nature of their perception and thinking, that noise pollution is increasingly widespread in Local contexts, as it contributes to the exacerbation of a number of psychological symptoms that directly affect the behavior of individuals and the nature of their perception and thinking, that noise pollution has become increasingly widespread in recent times due to the absence of official legislation and neglect in its application The health noise effect of excessive use of private generators and home generators with a frequency of more than 120 decibels amounted to 52.2% of the total sample of the study. As for the noise emanating from cars and the accompanying non-optimal use of car horns and horns, as well as motorcycles whose impact exceeded 22.4% From the total sample of the study, it exacerbated the suffering in the residential areas close to the main roads or even residential sub-roads, in addition to the spread of some factories selling blocks, cashews, bricks, factories and industrial workshops such as blacksmithing and car wash shops whose frequency exceeded 130 decibels, and whose effect exceeded 22% of the sample size spread near Or inside residential areas, all of this has exacerbated the effect that is going to increase, as a result of the absence of modern acoustic insulation methods in these causes, whose impact is evident near schools or facilities that need calm and away from external sound noise, all of these things are a sign of recognition
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