Impact of aeroplane noise on mental and physical health: a quasi-experimental analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Historically, departures at New York City's LaGuardia airport flew over a large sports complex within a park. During the US Open tennis games, flights were diverted to fly over a heavily populated foreign-born neighbourhood for roughly 2 weeks out of the year so that the tennis match was not disturbed (the 'TNNIS' departure). In 2012, the use of the TNNIS departure became year-round to better optimise flight patterns around the metropolitan area.

Methods

We exploited exogenously induced spatial and temporal variation in flight patterns to examine difference-in-difference effects of this new exposure to aircraft noise on the health of individual residents in the community relative to individuals residing within a demographically similar community that was not impac

SUBMITTER: Wang SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9062823 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature