Mcq Subject: Social & Preventive Medicine

Which of the following is not true about screw feed technology

A. Reduces weight by 30%

B. Reduces volume by 80%

C. Ideal for pathological waste

D. Non-burn heat sterilization technique

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A latex agglutination test for detection of meningitis was approved. Calculate the sensitivity and specificity of the test based on the data given below: Test PositiveTest NegativeDiseased273Non-diseased595

A. Sensitivity 90% Specificity 95%

B. Specificity 90% Sensitivity 95%

C. Sensitivity 80% Specificity 90%

D. Sensitivity 75% Specificity 95%

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In a village of 20,000 population 456 bihs occurred in april, 56 showed no signs of life at bih, 56 died before 28 days of life, 34 died between 28 days- 1 year, 500 was total number of deaths in that year. Infant moality rate?

A. 197.4

B. 320

C. 225

D. 125

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Pneumococcal vaccine PCV 23 polysaccharide has shown the best results in the following people

A. Sickle cell anemia

B. Cystic fibrosis

C. Child less than 2 year age

D. Recurrent otitis media and sinusitis

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Broken ampula is thrown into which coloured bin?

A. Red

B. Yellow

C. Blue

D. Black

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A researcher selected all possible samples from a population and plotted their means on a line graph. This distribution is called as:

A. Sample distribution

B. Sampling distribution

C. Population distribution

D. Parametric distribution

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Annual new case detection rate of leprosy as on 31st March, 2016 is:

A. 0.66 /10,000 population

B. 0.66/1,00,000 population

C. 9.7/10,000 population

D. 9.7/1,00,000 population

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A researcher said he has discovers a new drug which is effective in chronic hypeensives with a p value of < 0.10. Which of the following is true regarding the same?

A. The test is 90% reproducible

B. 90% of test results could have occurred by chance

C. Not more than 10% of the people benefitted by the drug could he due to chance

D. 90% of patients will be benefitted by giving the drug

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Which of the following does not include Specific protection under primary prevention?

A. Tab Rifampicin to those in contact with meningitis

B. Health education

C. Pentavalent vaccination

D. Wheat flour foified with added iron

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Which of the following is used for selecting patients with respect to potential factors that will affect the results?

A. Systematic random sampling

B. Simple random sampling

C. Stratified random sampling

D. Cluster sampling

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