Organizer:
Robert Lue, Director, HarvardX, and Professor, Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Panelists:
Chris Dellarocas, Professor and Chair, Information Systems, Boston University
Mitchell Stevens, Director, Digital Research and Planning, and Associate Professor, Education, Business and Sociology, Stanford University
Lungs & Asthma by Rosalind Wright | Cumulative Impacts Affect Kids 2
CUMULATIVE IMPACTS AND CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH | 2013 Symposium
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Professor Wright (Rosalind.wright@mssm.edu) from Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai NY shows how important it is to consider social stressors along with environmental contaminants. Their combined effects impair lung development in children and contribute to asthma and health disparities in urban areas.
CUMULATIVE IMPACTS takes into account environmental contaminants and social stressors that affect individuals and communities. Cumulative impacts of environmental factors and social stressors during early life increase disease in children and contribute to health disparities.
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