PROMOCIÓN Y PREVENCIÓN DE LA CONTAMINACIÓN SONORA A LOS ESTUDIANTES DEL PRIMER NIVEL DE LA CARRERA DE MEDICINA DE LA FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD DE LA UTM DURANTE EL PERÍODO NOVIEMBRE 2009 A MAYO 2010

Abstract

The sound contamination is one of the big problems for the human health in the modern society. In comparison with other pollutants, the control of the environmental noise has been limited by the lack of knowledge of its effects on the human beings, the scarce information on the relationship dose-answer and the lack of defined approaches. Although it is considered that the sound contamination is mainly a problem of "luxury" in the developed countries, it cannot spend for high that the exhibition is often bigger in the countries in development. The effects of the noise and their consequences of long term about the health you is generalizing. The decrease in the labor quality, the tension, the aggressiveness, the alteration of the heart rhythm, the increase of the arterial pressure, the diverse hormonal dysfunctions, the increase of the breathing rhythm, the digestive and intestinal dysfunctions, the possibility of eventual auditory losses, they are some examples from the possible sufferings when being exposed, for lingering times, to high and annoying sounds. When the noise is very high or people are auditorily sensitive, it can also cause them depressive states and problems to sleep. For it, it is essential to take actions to limit and to control the exhibition to the environmental noise. Those actions should be supported by an appropriate scientific evaluation of the available data on the effects of the noise, in particular, the relationship dose-answer. That relationship constitutes the base of the evaluation process and administration of risks. In general, an interior or external atmosphere is considered contaminated by noise when the sound exhibition there existent it originates proven nuisances, risks for the health, the natural resources or the atmosphere in general. The places dedicated to impart the docency, such as: the schools, the schools and the universities, don't escape to the sonic environmental contamination taken place by several factors that influence in a negative way in the good development and acting of the teaching process - learning of the estudents. For all him before already mentioned, the present investigation was carried out with the purpose of determining the generating factors of the sound contamination and its possible solutions and this way to be able to make aware the population on the effects that it produces the excess of noise about the quality of life; this inquiry was carried out in several classrooms where classes are imparted students of medicine of the UTM.