Community Medicine 1

Standard of Living (WHO) includes all except:

The Physical Quality of the Life Index considers:
A. Expectancy of life at birth
B. Expectancy of life at age one
C. Infant mortality rate
D. Literacy rate

Which one of the following is NOT a socio-economic indicator?

Which of the following is a Mortality Indicator?

Modified Kuppuswami scale include all criteria for socioeconomic status except:

Sullivan index indicates:

Given below are two statements.
Statement I: One DALY signifies 1 year of disease free life
Statement II: DALY is Years lost to premature death and years lived with disability adjusted for severity of disability
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

‘Silent epidemic’ of the century is:

In “Tip of Iceberg Phenomenon”, submerged portion does not consist of

Disease eliminated from India is /are:
A. Small pox
B. Guinea worm disease
C. Yaws
D. Measles
E. Polio

Causative agent is present but there is no transmission is known as:

All of the following represent Specific protection mode of Disease prevention Except:

Iceberg phenomenon differentiates:

All of the statements about quarantine are true except:
A. It is synonymous with isolation
B. Absolute quarantine is restriction during the incubation period
C. Exclusion of children from schools is an example of modified quarantine
D. Quarantine should not be longer than the longest incubation period
E. It is a type of primordial prevention

Carriers are not found in:

True about prevalence:

Following can be used as a yardstick for the assessment of standards of therapy:

Changes in occurrence of a disease over long periods of time are known as:

Which of the following regarding point source epidemic true:
A. Rapid rise & fall
B. Only infectious cause
C. Explosive
D. ↑secondary attack rate
E. No secondary wave

All of the following help reduce bias except:

A study compared 150 children with a particular disease with 300 disease free children to examine past experiences that may contribute to the development of the illness. What kind of study is this ?

The table given below shows cases of breast cancer occurring in a randomized clinical trial of a new drug designed to prevent the disease. In this study, 1000 healthy women between the ages of 60 and 65 were given the drug and 1000 were given the placebo for 5 years.
What is the relative risk of breast cancer in patients exposed to drug?

Match the following:

Which of the following studies is best for establishing causation ?

Disease(s) infectious before onset of symptoms is/are:
A. Measles
B. Mumps
C. Cholera
D. Hepatitis B
E. Poliomyelitis

Serial interval is

Man is dead end host for:

Herd immunity is not seen in :

Droplet nuclei are seen in all except:

Strain used for BCG vaccine:

A 3 yr old completely unimmunised child comes to an immunization clinic at PHC for the first time. He should
receive:

Administration of which vaccine can result in paralysis in children?

Hypothesis is not tested by:

Sputum can be disinfected by all except:

Which of the following is not a sporicidal agent?

Which of the following is not useful as a screening method?

Not a part of National Screening Programmes?

True about reliability of a test:

The probability of a test detecting a truly positive person from the population of diseased is the:

Diabetes mellitus is best diagnosed by:

Rural and urban population differ in incidence in all diseases except:

Given below are two statements.
Statement I: Blindness can be seen in Measles
Statement II: Blindness can be seen in Rubella
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: 

Disease not included in Vision 2020, India is:

Modes of transmission of amoebiasis are all except:

False about Japanese Encephalitis is:

Arboviral disease are:
A. Yellow fever
B. Epidemic typhus
C. Japanese encephalitis
D. Kala Azar
E. HIV

Incubation period less than few hours:

In the management of leprosy, Lepromin test is most useful for:

Which of these is NOT useful in the prevention of KFD?

The freshly prepared ORS (Oral Rehydration Solution) should not be used after: