Devilee Jeroen, Kempen Elise van, Swart Wim, Kamp Irene van, Ameling Caroline
Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
Noise Health. 2017 May-Jun;19(88):154-164. doi: 10.4103/nah.NAH_53_16.
Environmental noise and health studies seldom address the positive effect of environments with high acoustic quality. Sound quality, in turn, is influenced by a large number of factors, including the spatial-physical characteristics of a neighborhood. In general, these characteristics cannot be retrieved from existing databases. In this article, we describe the design of an audit instrument and demonstrate its value for gathering information about these characteristics of neighborhoods. The audit instrument used was derived from research in other fields than environmental health. The instrument was tested in 33 neighborhoods in the Dutch cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Arnhem. In these neighborhoods, more or less homogeneous subareas were identified that were subject of the audit. The results show that the audit approach is suitable to gather neighborhood data that are relevant for the sound quality of neighborhoods. Together with survey data, they provide information that could further the field of soundscape and health. Several suggestions for improvement of the audit instrument were made.
环境噪声与健康研究很少涉及声学质量高的环境所产生的积极影响。反过来，声音质量又受到大量因素的影响，包括社区的空间物理特征。一般来说，这些特征无法从现有数据库中获取。在本文中，我们描述了一种审计工具的设计，并展示了其在收集有关社区这些特征信息方面的价值。所使用的审计工具源自环境卫生以外的其他领域的研究。该工具在荷兰阿姆斯特丹、鹿特丹和阿纳姆市的33个社区进行了测试。在这些社区中，识别出了或多或少较为同质的分区作为审计对象。结果表明，这种审计方法适合收集与社区声音质量相关的社区数据。与调查数据一起，它们提供的信息有助于推动声景与健康领域的发展。针对审计工具的改进提出了一些建议。
