Health and the Environment in North Carolina

H Kim Lyerly; David B Peden

doi:10.18043/ncm.79.5.302

Health and the Environment in North Carolina

N C Med J. 2018 Sep-Oct;79(5):302-305. doi: 10.18043/ncm.79.5.302.

Authors

H Kim Lyerly¹, David B Peden²

Affiliations

¹ director, Environmental Health Scholars Program; George Barth Geller Professor of Cancer Research; professor, Departments of Surgery, Immunology, and Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
² Andrews professor of pediatrics, senior associate dean for Translational Resarch, director, Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, The School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

PMID: 30228135
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.79.5.302

Abstract

Environmental impacts on health are usually discussed from a global perspective. However, this issue of the North Carolina Medical Journal focuses on studies of health outcomes in North Carolina caused by local air and water pollution. While some people are clearly at increased risk, environmental threats to health ultimately impact all of us.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Environmental Health*
Humans
North Carolina