Question

Environmental epidemiology

Answer 1

ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY:-
- It is a branch of epidemiology concerned with the search of the environmental exposures that contribute to or protect against injuries, illnesses, developmental conditions, disabilities, and deaths.
- Identification of public health to manage the risks associated with harmful exposures.
- this deals with external factors that affect the incidence, prevalence, and geographic range of health conditions.
- These factors may be naturally occurring or manually introduced into environment.
-Environmental exposures are involuntary generally exclude occupational exposures.