Statewide Survey on Environmental Health

What are the biggest environmental health problems as viewed by North Carolinians? How are these problems viewed as personal versus collective health threats? And how do North Carolinians feel about the information they need—and may or may not have—to protect themselves successfully from environmental health threats? 

CHHE is dedicated to understanding how human health is impacted by environmental factors and using this knowledge to reduce adverse impacts and improve human health. To understand how Center research intersects with North Carolina residents’ lives, the CEC conducts a statewide survey on environmental health. The online questionnaire collects data from a representative sample of adults across the state to get a sense of how and where people get information related to environmental health, how they think about environmental health issues broadly, and how they perceive and respond to specific environmental health issues that are directly related to CHHE research.

Summary results from these surveys are shared biannually with Center leadership and Stakeholder Advisory Board members, and descriptive statistics are used to strengthen and provide context for members’ grant proposals and presentations.

Below you will find the topline results and summary reports from each survey. We began collecting data in 2020, and are now able to implement the survey on a biannual basis.

We are currently editing and re-formatting the most recent reports. Please check back soon to see them!

For more information, contact Andy Binder.