From December 9 to 16, experts from the Odesa Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted a study of the noise level on the city's main highways and identified the city's noisiest streets. How does it affect human health? ElitExpert discussed this with Svetlana Kozinova, a specialist in the Epidemiological Surveillance Department of the Odesa Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to the results of the monitoring, permissible noise levels are exceeded at the 5th station of Bolshoy Fontan, on Shevchenko Avenue, Preobrazhenskaya and Malaya Arnautskaya streets, as well as on Srednefontanskaya Square. In these areas of the city, the noise level is higher by 3-15 decibels (Db), with a maximum of 55 Db. There are also streets where experts register violations all the time.
"This indicator may fluctuate depending on the intensity of traffic, but the most problematic places where noise level violations are constantly registered are Balkovskaya, Matroski spusk, and in the summer, the central streets of the city (Ryshelievskaya, Preobrazhenskaya, Bolshaya Arnautskaya). That is, where there is the largest flow of traffic. This also includes the highways of the Suvorovsk region - Dobrovolskogo avenue, Dnepropetrovsk road," explains Svetlana Kozynova.
According to her, street noise strongly affects a person's health, especially the nervous system.
"Low-frequency noises have a depressing effect, cause neuroses. And high-frequency ones, in addition, can cause hypertension, headaches, insomnia, irritability," the doctor noted.
If you live near the main highways of the city, where cars are constantly driving, then experts advise you to spend at least one hour a day in complete silence. It is also desirable to walk more, to listen to the sound of the sea, to your favorite music - but soft and calm.
