The noise awareness among hospital community due to traffic and construction noise in Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun

The Hospital Raja Permasuri Bainun Ipoh is the third largest hospital in Malaysia with a capacity of 990 beds, 16 operating room, 16 bed adult intensive care unit, 8 bed coronary care units, 17 bed intensive care unit of a child (PICU) and 20 extra neonatal care unit. Due from that, the identi...

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Main Author:	Md Nor, Ahmad Yunus Faeez
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English English English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	TD878-894 Special types of environment Including soil pollution air pollution noise pollution
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spelling	my-uthm-ep.12652021-09-30T06:55:19Z The noise awareness among hospital community due to traffic and construction noise in Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun 2018-09 Md Nor, Ahmad Yunus Faeez TD878-894 Special types of environment, Including soil pollution, air pollution, noise pollution The Hospital Raja Permasuri Bainun Ipoh is the third largest hospital in Malaysia with a capacity of 990 beds, 16 operating room, 16 bed adult intensive care unit, 8 bed coronary care units, 17 bed intensive care unit of a child (PICU) and 20 extra neonatal care unit. Due from that, the identification about surrounding of hospital is needed. This research investigates the traffic noise and construction noise and the perception it has on the community of Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun, Ipoh. The selected study area was delimited by traffic noise on the Raja Ashman Shah Road and construction on the hospital block. A sound level meter was used to measure the both noise at 3 different measuring points within the study area. Measurements were taken during the day (7am to 7pm) and at night (8pm-11.30pm) in order to establish the noise around the hospital. The data have been analyzed using the Microsoft Excel 2007 to get the average of noise produced. A 29-item noise-perception –related questionnaire was used to establish the perception of noise pollution on the respondents. A 150 randomly chosen participants within the hospital community were answers the through quantitative method. On the completion of this research, it was established that the noise surround the hospital are exceed the permissible noise level limits based on Department of Environment Malaysia. Based on the result, the majority of the participants are having bad perceptions with support from literature review about the noise pollution causing around the hospital that it affected them during current and after receive the noise. The finding contributes to increase the awareness among the stakeholders. 2018-09 Thesis http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1265/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1265/1/24p%20AHMAD%20YUNUS%20FAEEZ%20MD%20NOR.pdf text en public http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1265/2/AHMAD%20YUNUS%20FAEEZ%20MD%20NOR%20COPYRIGHT%20DECLARATION.pdf text en staffonly http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1265/3/AHMAD%20YUNUS%20FAEEZ%20MD%20NOR%20WATERMARK.pdf text en validuser mphil masters Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Fakulti Pengurusan Teknologi dan Perniagaan
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topic	TD878-894 Special types of environment Including soil pollution air pollution noise pollution
spellingShingle	TD878-894 Special types of environment Including soil pollution air pollution noise pollution Md Nor, Ahmad Yunus Faeez The noise awareness among hospital community due to traffic and construction noise in Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun
description	The Hospital Raja Permasuri Bainun Ipoh is the third largest hospital in Malaysia with a capacity of 990 beds, 16 operating room, 16 bed adult intensive care unit, 8 bed coronary care units, 17 bed intensive care unit of a child (PICU) and 20 extra neonatal care unit. Due from that, the identification about surrounding of hospital is needed. This research investigates the traffic noise and construction noise and the perception it has on the community of Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun, Ipoh. The selected study area was delimited by traffic noise on the Raja Ashman Shah Road and construction on the hospital block. A sound level meter was used to measure the both noise at 3 different measuring points within the study area. Measurements were taken during the day (7am to 7pm) and at night (8pm-11.30pm) in order to establish the noise around the hospital. The data have been analyzed using the Microsoft Excel 2007 to get the average of noise produced. A 29-item noise-perception –related questionnaire was used to establish the perception of noise pollution on the respondents. A 150 randomly chosen participants within the hospital community were answers the through quantitative method. On the completion of this research, it was established that the noise surround the hospital are exceed the permissible noise level limits based on Department of Environment Malaysia. Based on the result, the majority of the participants are having bad perceptions with support from literature review about the noise pollution causing around the hospital that it affected them during current and after receive the noise. The finding contributes to increase the awareness among the stakeholders.
format	Thesis
qualification_name	Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.)
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Md Nor, Ahmad Yunus Faeez
author_facet	Md Nor, Ahmad Yunus Faeez
author_sort	Md Nor, Ahmad Yunus Faeez
title	The noise awareness among hospital community due to traffic and construction noise in Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun
title_short	The noise awareness among hospital community due to traffic and construction noise in Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun
title_full	The noise awareness among hospital community due to traffic and construction noise in Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun
title_fullStr	The noise awareness among hospital community due to traffic and construction noise in Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun
title_full_unstemmed	The noise awareness among hospital community due to traffic and construction noise in Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun
title_sort	noise awareness among hospital community due to traffic and construction noise in hospital raja permaisuri bainun
granting_institution	Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
granting_department	Fakulti Pengurusan Teknologi dan Perniagaan
publishDate	2018
url	http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1265/1/24p%20AHMAD%20YUNUS%20FAEEZ%20MD%20NOR.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1265/2/AHMAD%20YUNUS%20FAEEZ%20MD%20NOR%20COPYRIGHT%20DECLARATION.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1265/3/AHMAD%20YUNUS%20FAEEZ%20MD%20NOR%20WATERMARK.pdf
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The noise awareness among hospital community due to traffic and construction noise in Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun

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