The International Noise Awareness Day conmemorated the last Wednesday of April, every year. It is a global awareness action that aims to alert the general public about the adverse health effects of acoustic pollution. Noise is a public health problem, beyond annoyance, but, generally people is only aware of auditory effects, annoyance and sleep disturbance. This initiative aims to raise awareness on the public health perspective of noise, so that it can be addressed by the society as a whole. Noise can affect you while you are asleep, or even when you do not realize that noise is present, it can affect your health.
For 2016, I have prepared a brief video with my colleagues Julio Díaz (Instituto de Salud Carlos III) and Gaetano Licitra (Agenzia Regionale per la protezione ambientalle de la Toscana).
I have also created the entry in Wikipedia, in spanish this year (I the english version in 2014).
