Social & Preventive Medicine MCQ Questions — Page 725

Question 1

The amount of sewage flowing in a system in 24 hours is called

CRCA index

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Sewage rate

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Dry weather flow

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Sewage index

Question 2

Which of the following actions can help in the prevention of HIV transmission?

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Use of copper T by sex workers

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Using safe injection techniques

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Avoidance of smoking by drivers

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Probihiting voluntary blood donation

Question 3

Health education –

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Is health promotion

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Is health distortion

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Is delivered through public health agencies only

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Does not help in prevention of cancer

Question 4

Generation time in epidemiology is defined as –

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The interval between marriage and the birth of first child

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The interval of time between the receipt of infection by host and maximal infectivity of the host

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The interval of time between primary case and secondary cases

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Interval of time between invasion by infectious agent and appearance of first sign or symptom of the disease in question

Question 5

A mother is HBsAg positive at 32 weeks of pregnancy. What should be given to the new born to prevent neonatal infection –

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Hepatitis B vaccine + immunoglobulins

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Immunoglobulins

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Hepatitis B vaccine only

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Immunoglobulin followed by vaccine 1 month later

Question 6

PQLI is –

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Disability indicator

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Quality of life indicator

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Standard of living indicator

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Level of living indicator

Question 7

Dukoral vaccine is used for-

ATyphoid

BCholera

DInfluenza

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Yellow fever

Question 8

A chi-sqaure test would be most appropriate for testing which one of the following hypotheses?

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That the mean AIPGE score of Delhi students is greater than that of mumbai students

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That a smaller propoion of poeple who were immunized against chicken pox subsequently develop zoster than those who were not immunized

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That the mean blood pressure of black and white male-hypeensive patients taking ACE inhibitors is the same as that of black and white female-hypeensive patients taking ACE inhibitors and that of black and white males and females taking diuretics and placebos

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That the mean cost of treating a patient with coronary aery disease with angioplasty isgreater than the mean cost of providing medicaltreatment

Question 9

‘Course of a disease process without any intervention’ is the definition of

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Spectrum of disease

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Epidemiology of disease

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Natural history of disease

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Iceberg Phenomenon