Environmental and geographical factors
Project goals
The environment plays a decisive role in our health and quality of life. Both negative and positive factors have an impact on our well-being. The main tasks of the expert group include the development of a concept for the allocation of spatial environmental data to the NAKO participants’ places of residence and their prospective and retrospective residential history, the development of an exposome concept and cooperation with the NAKO Environmental Data Unit (EDU).
Further information on data utilisation by EDU.
First results
Traffic noise: Two thirds of over 86,000 participants did not feel annoyed by traffic noise. One in ten reported strong/very strong annoyance, with the highest proportions in Berlin-Mitte and Leipzig. The strongest associations with noise pollution were observed for factors relating to the individual living situation, such as the position of the bedroom facing the main road compared to the garden/courtyard.
Publications
Wolf K, Kraus U, Dzolan M, et al. Nächtliche Verkehrslärmbelästigung in Deutschland: individuelle und regionale Unterschiede in der NAKO Gesundheitsstudie. Bundesgesundheitsbl. 2020;63(3):332-343. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-020-03094-y
Speakers
Dr. Alexandra Schneider
Prof. Dr. Barbara Hoffmann (Deputy Spokesperson)