SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1979
STP35962S

Considerations of Community Noise Impact on Hearing Health

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Potential contributors to hearing impairment due to community noise sources are discussed. These include: (a) the predisposing effect of moderately intense (70 dBA) average background sound levels; (b) the “effective quiet” concept that identifies sound levels that neither cause a temporary threshold shift (TTS) nor impede recovery from TTS; (c) community noise source stress reaction as a further predisposing influence during dangerously high level noise exposures; and (d) attitudinal factors involved in noise experience discussed in terms of a “pleasure principle.”

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Lipscomb, DM
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.
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Developed by Committee: E33
Pages: 73–79
DOI: 10.1520/STP35962S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-4757-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-0609-3