QUESTION 5 Shortterm acute health outcomes are generally eas

QUESTION 5

         Short-term, acute health outcomes are generally easier to associate with environmental exposures than long-term, chronic effects - the reason in part being the shorter latency of acute outcomes.

         True or False

Solution

True.

Short term health issues can be easily associated with environment as in most of the cases health problem is being contracted by pathogens in environment. In case of long term health problems we cannot asociate it entirely with environment as there can be other reasons for such health issues.