Mcq Subject: Social & Preventive Medicine

Function of Health worker female –

A. Perform 50% of deliveries

B. Trains dais

C. Enlist dais of the subcentre

D. Chlorination of water

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Which of the following statements is true about the epidemiological determinants of measles –

A. Measles virus survives outside the human body for 5 days

B. Carriers are important sources of infection

C. Secondary attack is less than that of rubella

D. Incidence of measles is more in males than females

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Positive predictive value of a test does not depends upon

A. Incidence of disease

B. Specificity

C. Prevalence of disease

D. Sensitivity

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Screening is done because of all except:

A. Testing for infection or disease in population or in individuals who are not seeking health care

B. It is defined presumptive identification of unrecognized disease

C. Search for unrecognized disease or defect by means of rapidly applied test, examinations or other procedures in apparently healthy individuals

D. Use of clinical or laboratory tests to detect disease in individual seeking health care for other reasons

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A knownHIV positive patient is admitted in anisolation ward after an abdominal surgery followingan accident. The resident docter who changed hisdressing the next day found it to be soaked in blood hich of the following would be the right method ofchoice of descarding the dressing –

A. Pour 1% hypochloric on the dressing materialand send it for incineration in a appropriate bag

B. Pour 5% hypochlorite on the dressing materialand send it for incineration in a appropriate bag

C. Put the dressing material directly in anappropriate bag and send for incineration

D. Pour2% Lysol on the dressing material and sendit for incineration in a appropriate bag

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In lepromatous leprosy the single drug dapsone is continue for –

A. 9 days

B. 90 days

C. 1 years

D. 10 years

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The correlation between IMR and Socio Economic status is best depicted by –

A. Correlation (+1)

B. Correlation (+0.5)

C. Correlation (– 1)

D. Correlation (– 0.8)

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Amongst the following, which carries the least chance of transmitting HIV infection: September 2010

A. Heterosexual Intercourse

B. Blood transfusion

C. Veical transmission

D. IV drug abusers

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Food poisoning is an example of:

A. Point source epidemic

B. Propagated source epidemic

C. Common source epidemic

D. Pandemic

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Polio virus is shed in stool up to –

A. 6 weeks

B. 8 weeks

C. 10 weeks

D. 12 weeks

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