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Agency National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Acronym NIEHS Hierarchy Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Docs News Releases; Scholarly Journals; Research Reports; Technical Reports URL http://www.niehs.nih.gov/ Notes Human health and human disease result from three interactive elements: environmental factors, individual susceptibility and age. The mission of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is to reduce the burden of human illness and dysfunction from environmental causes by understanding each of these elements and how they interrelate. Subjects DISEASES ENVIRONMENT HEALTH AND MEDICINE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT