Informing environmental health and risk priorities through local outreach and extension.

ABSTRACT: Our society is currently facing an unprecedented number of environmental and societal challenges. Stakeholder and community engagement can help identify priority issues and needs at local levels. One approach to engage stakeholders and communities in the contexts of environmental, health, and societal challenges is to leverage outreach and extension programs. Within this context, and to help identify priority issues to focus subsequent research and extension programs in North Carolina (NC), a survey was conducted with extension agents to identify priority issues as they relate to environmental health and risks and related needs. Based on responses from 66 study participants that represented half of the 100 NC counties, we found that Water pollution, Flooding, Natural resou

SUBMITTER: Grieger K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9161196 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature