The Influence of Night-time Noise on Sleep and Health

Sleep is very important. It is therefore understandable that unintentional noise-related disturbance of sleep is a serious problem. Since it is not always easy to reduce disturbing noise, which is frequently associated with activities that are of value to the community at large, such as travel and transport, a debate has arisen regarding the health and well-being implications of sleep disturbance by environmental noise.