Deck 19: Public Health and Medicine

Question 1

Lathyrism affects one of the following system:

A)Gastro intestinal system
B)Renal system
C)Cardio vascular system
D)Central nervous system

Answer 1

Central nervous system

Question 2

Adolescent age starts from according to WHO

A)9 years
B)10 years
C)14 years
D)15 years

Answer 2

10 years

Question 3

Which of the following is not a norm for the delivery of health and family welfare services to rural community in the hilly regions?

A)One CHC per 80,000 persons
B)One sub-centre per 3000 persons
C)One PHC per 20000 persons
D)One ASHA per 1000 persons

Answer 3

One ASHA per 1000 persons

Question 4

National Malaria Control Programme was rechristened as National Malaria Eradication Program in 1958. When was the National Anti-Malaria Programme introduced?

A)1979
B)1999
C)1989
D)2009

Question 5

Under ICDS which of the following services are not delivered through the Anganwadi centre?

A)Sports training to children below 5 years
B)Growth monitoring
C)Nutritional supplement
D)Pre-school education

Question 6

Which of the following States in India ranks poorest in nutritional status of children below 5 years of age?

A)Chhatisgarh
B)Orissa
C)Uttarakhand
D)Jharkhand

Question 7

Which of the following institutions is responsible for issues pertaining to health education?

A)ICMR
B)CBHI
C)CHEB
D)NIMS

Question 8

Care at birth requires five cleans. Which of the following is not among them?

A)Clean hands
B)Clean cord tie
C)Clean water tap
D)Clean razor blade

Question 9

1. The following vaccine is a live attenuated bacterial vaccine:

A)Measles
B)BCG
C)Salk Vaccine
D)Hepatitis B Vaccine

Question 10

Against which of the viral hepatitis, vaccine is currently available in India?
I. Hepatitis A
II. Hepatitis B
III. Hepatitis C
IV. Hepatitis D

A)I and II are correct.
B)I and III are correct.
C)I and IV are correct.
D)II and IV are correct.

Question 11

Where is the WHO established international laboratory for monitoring and studying air pollution, located in India?

A)Delhi
B)Pune
C)Nagpur
D)Mumbai

Question 12

The type of Pneumoconiosis that cotton dust causes is known as

A)Bagassosis
B)Byssinosis
C)Anthrocosis
D)Silicosis

Question 13

The drug given prophylactically to prevent parent-to-child transmission of HIV infection under NACO is

A)Zidovudine
B)Nevirapine
C)Ritonavir
D)Saguinavir

Question 14

'Nirmal Gram Abhiyan' deals with which of the following?

A)Soft loan for the villages
B)Education of the villagers
C)Sanitation incentives for the villages
D)State award for sanitation

Question 15

While studying health and illness, who propounded the notion of 'Sick Role' from among the following?

A)Talcott Parsons
B)Karl Marx
C)Weber
D)Francis Bacon

Question 16

Point prevalence overestimates the disease with

A)High incidence
B)Low incidence
C)Low mortality
D)High mortality

Question 17

Nested case - control study is a type of

A)Retrospective study
B)Prospective study
C)Descriptive study
D)Cross-sectional study

Question 18

Bhopal Gas Tragedy is an example of

A)Point source epidemic
B)Propagated epidemic
C)Continuous epidemic
D)Modern epidemic

Question 19

Which of the following is an internationally notifiable disease?

A)Diphtheria
B)Tuberculosis
C)Yellow Fever
D)Malaria

Question 20

Which of the following of the millennium Development Goals is to 'Develop a global partnership for development'?

A)Goal 5
B)Goal 4
C)Goal 8
D)Goal 1

Question 21

Correctly identify ICMR recommended dietary intakes for a normal adult male doing sedentary work.
I. Cereals - 460 gms
II. Milk - 250 gms
III. Green leafy vegetables - 100 gms
IV. Pulses - 40 gms

A)I and II are correct
B)II and III are correct
C)I and IV are correct
D)II and IV are correct

Question 22

Which of the following are the asymmetrical frequency distributions?
I. Normal Distribution
II. Bimodal DistributionIII. 'J' shaped Distribution
IV. 'V' shaped Distribution

A)I, II and III are correct
B)I and IV are correct
C)II, III and IV are correct
D)I and II are correct

Question 23

Correctly identify the inherent properties of a screening test:
I. Yield
II. Sensitivity
III. Specificity
IV. Predictive Accuracy

A)II and IV are correct
B)I and III are correct
C)I, II and IV are correct
D)II, III and IV are correct

Question 24

The earlier centres for Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) through surrogacy in India were in which of the following States?
I. Karnataka
II. Gujarat
III. Delhi
IV. Maharashtra

A)I and II are correct
B)II and IV are correct
C)I and III are correct
D)II, III and IV are correct

Question 25

Medical tourism is fast becoming a growing industry in India. Name the States whichare major contributors to medical tourism.
I. Kerala
II. Himachal Pradesh
III. Andhra Pradesh
IV. Rajasthan

A)II, III and IV are correct
B)I, III and IV are correct
C)I, II and IV are correct
D)I, II and III are correct