Mcq Subject: Social & Preventive Medicine

Malaria control means

A. To reduce Malaria moality to Zero

B. To prevent local transmission for 3 years

C. To reduce Malaria disease so that its no longer a Public Health Problem

D. To reduce Incidence to Zero

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Which of the following parameters is used to determine the sensitivity of vaccine due to heat?

A. VVM

B. VMV

C. VCM

D. VMM

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Tuberculin test is a cheap and easily available test. In which of the following situations there is high failure in the interpretation of the test?

A. High percentage of immunized people

B. HIV cases are less

C. High prevalence of disease

D. Environmental mycobacterium infections are less

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APGAR scores of 30 children are recorded in a hospital and most of the readings are found to be 7 or above. What can you make out about this data distribution?

A. Positively skewed data

B. Negatively skewed data

C. Normal distribution

D. Symmetrically skewed data

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A screening test is used in same way in two similar populations, but the proportion of false positive results among those who test positive in population A is lower than among those who test positive in population B. What is the likely explanation for this finding?

A. The prevalence of disease is higher in population A

B. The prevalence of disease is lower in population A

C. The specificity of the test is lower in population A

D. The specificity of the test is higher in population A

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Case control study was done regarding breast cancer & risk factors & odds ratio was obtained. Which of the following are causative factors ?ParameterCaseControlORAge at menarche>12171423291.04Menopause177124081.53OCP use93511051.02Smoking932140.97Family history5135021.10BMI>27.51654930.53Breastfeeding94225140.56Multiparity(2)277833661.05

A. 6

B. 5

C. 3

D. 2

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Data about recent trends of immunization in the community can be found by:

A. Sample registration system

B. District level health survey

C. Rural survey

D. Census data

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ICD-10 stands for

A. International Classification of Drugs, 10th revision

B. International Classification of Disabilities, 10th revision

C. International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision

D. International Classification of Disasters, 10th revision

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Child Pugh score put patients into three categories of Score A (<7), Score B (7-9) and Score C (10-15). The following is a type of which scale?

A. Nominal

B. Ordinal

C. Quantitative

D. Continuous

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A study was conducted to find average intra-ocular pressure. IOP was measured in 400 people and the mean was found to be 25 mm Hg with a standard detion of 10 mm Hg. What is the range in which 10P of 95% of the population would be lying?

A. 22-28 mm Hg

B. 20-30 mm Hg

C. 24-26 mm Hg

D. 23-27 mm Hg

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