Volume : 2, Issue : 6, JUN 2016

NOISE EFFECT ON HUMAN AVERAGE AGE

Dima Khraisat 1 | Refqa Adel

Abstract

Due to modern civilization consequences, the number of vehicles, trains, etc. have been rapidly increasing, in return, the noise ratio has been increased in modern cities and communities around the world. This increase has several effects on humans, where the human age is one of the main effects of noise increasing. This work tries to study the effect of noise caused by high sound levels on the average human age. Two areas in Jordan have been selected to conduct the study; one in the middle of the city and the other in a remote village. The center of Amman city and the center of Salt city have been selected as a case study. The measure and collected data represent the sound level, the most common diseases, the growth rate of population. The results show that there is a strong relationship between these data and the level of noise. Further, the results show that the average age of human has been negatively impacted by the level of noise that caused by high sound levels.

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