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Public Health [ Question No: 1 To 20 ] :
Which of the following do not come under the maintenance of public hygiene ?
(a) Proper disposal of waste and excreta
(b) Keeping the body clean
(c) Disinfection of water reservoirs
(d) Consuming clean drinking water
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
What barriers restrict women and girls in accessing health care?
What is child mortality rate ? (Select most appropriate option from below)
Which of the following is not a study design used in epidemiology?
Which were the two additional components included in RCH Phase-1?
On what basis were districts categorized in the RCH Phase-1 programme?
WHO, Mental Health Action Plan was launched in the year:
Identify from the following diseases which can be caused due to sedentary life style of a person.
(a) Rickets
(b) Obesity
(c) Thalassaemia
(d) Hypertension
(e) Goiter
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
Given below are two statements.
Statement I : Transplacental transfer of immunoglobulin (IgG) from mother to the foetus is an example of Artificial Passive Acquired Immunity.
Statement II : Injecting Anti Tetanus Serum (ATS) against tetanus is a case of creating Natural Passive Acquired Immunity.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
Which of the following is not an infectious disease ?
What is the importance of immunization for a child ? Select most appropriate answer from below :
Identify the diseases caused by worms in human beings.
(a) Ringworm
(b) Amoebiasis
(c) Ascariasis
(d) Elephantiasis
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
Bacillus Chalmette Guerin (BCG) is given to an infant: (Choose the most appropriate option from below)
Immunization in pregnant women for tetanus is done as: (Choose the most appropriate option from below)
Children who are crippled resulting from polio, cerebral palsy, congenital heart disease are categorized under -
Which of the following is NOT a psychiatric disorder?
Identify the pillars of interventions of the India Newborn Action Plan (INAP), 2014.
(a) Care of healthy newborn
(b) Prevention of stunting, undernutrition and anaemia in young children and women
(c) Care beyond newborn survival
(d) Preconception and antenatal care
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
Which of the following statements are true?
a. New National Health Policy & Pradhan Mantri Matra Vandana Yojana both were started in the same year i.e. 2017.
b. This new National Health Policy was approved by the cabinet in 2017 after a gap of 15 years.
c. Ministry of Education is the nodal ministry for implementation of Poshan Abhiyan.
d. The Home-Based Care of Young child (HBYC) was launched in 2018.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Bleeding from nose i.e. "Nakseer" is due to vitiation of :
Which is not a programme under Ayushman Bharat programme?
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
Public Health [ Question No: 1 To 20 ] :
Which of the following do not come under the maintenance of public hygiene ?
(a) Proper disposal of waste and excreta
(b) Keeping the body clean
(c) Disinfection of water reservoirs
(d) Consuming clean drinking water
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The ones that do not come under public hygiene are (b) and (d) only.
Public hygiene covers measures taken for the community as a whole: proper disposal of waste and excreta (a) and disinfection of water reservoirs (c) protect everyone's health.
Keeping one's body clean (b) and consuming clean drinking water (d) are matters of personal hygiene, done by each individual for his or her own health. So the options including (a) or (c) are wrong.
What barriers restrict women and girls in accessing health care?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The barrier is mobility restrictions.
In many communities women and girls cannot travel alone, need permission to leave home, or lack transport, so they cannot reach a health centre even when it exists. Such restrictions on movement are a well-recognised barrier to women's use of health care, along with poverty and lack of decision-making power.
The other three are the opposite of barriers. High literacy, financial stability and better education all make it easier for women to know about, afford and demand health services.
What is child mortality rate ? (Select most appropriate option from below)
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The child mortality rate is the total number of child deaths under the age of five years per 1000 live births.
Child mortality, also called the under-five mortality rate, measures the probability of a child dying before the fifth birthday, expressed per 1,000 live births. It is one of the main indicators of child health and was a target of the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals.
The age limit is five years, not two, and the rate is expressed per 1,000, not per 100, which rules out the other three options.
Which of the following is not a study design used in epidemiology?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The one that is not a study design is Incidence study.
Incidence is a measure: the number of new cases of a disease in a population over a period. It is calculated from studies but is not itself a type of study.
The other three are standard epidemiological designs. A cohort study follows exposed and unexposed groups forward to see who develops disease. A case control study starts from people with and without a disease and looks back at past exposures. A cross-sectional study measures exposure and disease at one point in time.
Which were the two additional components included in RCH Phase-1?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The two additional components were sexually transmitted diseases and reproductive tract infections.
The Reproductive and Child Health programme, Phase I, began in 1997. It merged the earlier Child Survival and Safe Motherhood programme with family planning and added new services, chiefly the prevention and management of reproductive tract infections (RTI) and sexually transmitted infections (STI), along with adolescent reproductive health.
Child survival and safe motherhood were not additions: they came from the existing CSSM programme. Neonatal care and child malnutrition were not the new components of Phase I.
On what basis were districts categorized in the RCH Phase-1 programme?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Districts were grouped by crude birth rate and female literacy rate.
The first phase of the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) programme, launched in 1997, sorted India's districts into categories A, B and C using these two indicators, so that the weakest districts, with high fertility and low female literacy, received more support and funds.
Urbanisation, economic development and the state of health infrastructure were not the criteria. They matter to health planning, but the RCH-1 classification rested on the two demographic and social indicators most closely tied to maternal and child health.
WHO, Mental Health Action Plan was launched in the year:
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The WHO Mental Health Action Plan was launched in 2013.
The World Health Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 in May 2013. It set objectives for leadership and governance, community-based services, promotion and prevention, and information systems, and was later extended to 2030.
2012, 2014 and 2015 are not the year of adoption; 2014 is when India adopted its own first National Mental Health Policy, which makes it a likely distractor.
Identify from the following diseases which can be caused due to sedentary life style of a person.
(a) Rickets
(b) Obesity
(c) Thalassaemia
(d) Hypertension
(e) Goiter
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The diseases linked to a sedentary life style are (b) and (d) only: obesity and hypertension.
Lack of physical activity means fewer calories are burnt, leading to weight gain and obesity, and it also raises blood pressure and the risk of heart disease and diabetes.
The others have different causes. Rickets is due to vitamin D deficiency, thalassaemia is an inherited blood disorder, and goitre is caused by iodine deficiency. So options including (a), (c) or (e) are wrong.
Given below are two statements.
Statement I : Transplacental transfer of immunoglobulin (IgG) from mother to the foetus is an example of Artificial Passive Acquired Immunity.
Statement II : Injecting Anti Tetanus Serum (ATS) against tetanus is a case of creating Natural Passive Acquired Immunity.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Both statements are incorrect.
Passive immunity is given by ready-made antibodies. When it comes through a natural process, it is natural passive immunity; when antibodies are injected, it is artificial passive immunity.
Statement I is wrong: the transfer of IgG from mother to foetus across the placenta is a natural process, so it is natural passive immunity, not artificial. Statement II is wrong: injecting anti-tetanus serum gives ready-made antibodies by injection, which is artificial passive immunity, not natural. Each statement has the two labels swapped.
Which of the following is not an infectious disease ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The one that is not infectious is osteoarthritis.
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease: the cartilage cushioning the joints wears down with age, injury or excess weight, causing pain and stiffness. It is not caused by germs and cannot spread from person to person.
Diphtheria and tuberculosis are caused by bacteria and spread through droplets, and dysentery is caused by bacteria or amoebae spread through contaminated food and water. All three are infectious.
What is the importance of immunization for a child ? Select most appropriate answer from below :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The keyed answer is that immunization prevents children from getting diseases for which there are often no medical treatments.
Vaccines train the immune system to resist particular diseases before the child meets them. Many of these diseases, such as polio, measles and tetanus once established, have no cure or no specific treatment, so prevention is the only reliable protection.
Immunization does nothing about obesity or an unhealthy environment. 'Prevents children from getting infected' is too sweeping: vaccines protect against specific diseases, not against infection in general.
Identify the diseases caused by worms in human beings.
(a) Ringworm
(b) Amoebiasis
(c) Ascariasis
(d) Elephantiasis
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The worm diseases are (c) and (d) only.
Ascariasis is caused by the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, which lives in the intestine. Elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis) is caused by filarial worms such as Wuchereria bancrofti, spread by mosquitoes.
Despite its name, ringworm is a fungal infection of the skin, not a worm. Amoebiasis is caused by the protozoan Entamoeba histolytica. So every option including (a) or (b) is wrong.
Bacillus Chalmette Guerin (BCG) is given to an infant: (Choose the most appropriate option from below)
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
BCG is given at birth or as early as possible till one year of age.
Under India's Universal Immunization Programme, the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis is given intradermally at birth, and if missed it can still be given at any time up to one year of age.
'Within 24 hours' is the limit for the hepatitis B birth dose, and 'within the first 30 days' is not the BCG rule. The 6, 10 and 14 week schedule is for vaccines such as pentavalent, OPV and rotavirus.
Immunization in pregnant women for tetanus is done as: (Choose the most appropriate option from below)
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Tetanus immunisation in pregnancy is given intra-muscularly.
Pregnant women receive the Td (tetanus and adult diphtheria) vaccine as an intramuscular injection in the upper arm, two doses in a first pregnancy (or a booster if vaccinated recently). It protects the mother and prevents neonatal tetanus.
No tetanus vaccine is given orally, intradermally or subcutaneously in the national schedule; the oral route is used for polio and rotavirus vaccines, the intradermal route for BCG, and the subcutaneous route for measles-rubella.
Children who are crippled resulting from polio, cerebral palsy, congenital heart disease are categorized under -
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
They are categorised as physically handicapped children.
Polio, cerebral palsy and congenital heart disease limit a child's movement, posture or physical stamina, so these children fall under physical (orthopaedic and health) handicap. They may need aids such as callipers, wheelchairs or physiotherapy.
A mentally handicapped child has limited intellectual ability; a socially handicapped child is disadvantaged by family or social circumstances such as neglect or poverty; and a psychological handicap refers to emotional or behavioural problems. None of these describes children crippled by these conditions.
Which of the following is NOT a psychiatric disorder?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The one that is not a psychiatric disorder is Hemophilia.
Haemophilia is an inherited, X-linked bleeding disorder caused by deficiency of a clotting factor (factor VIII in haemophilia A, factor IX in haemophilia B). It is a disorder of the blood, not of the mind.
Psychosis, substance abuse (substance use disorder) and obsessive compulsive disorder (printed as 'syndrome' in the paper) are all psychiatric disorders listed in the standard classifications.
Identify the pillars of interventions of the India Newborn Action Plan (INAP), 2014.
(a) Care of healthy newborn
(b) Prevention of stunting, undernutrition and anaemia in young children and women
(c) Care beyond newborn survival
(d) Preconception and antenatal care
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The INAP pillars are (a), (c) and (d) only.
The India Newborn Action Plan, launched in 2014 to cut preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths, is built on six pillars of intervention: preconception and antenatal care; care during labour and childbirth; immediate newborn care; care of the healthy newborn; care of small and sick newborns; and care beyond newborn survival. Items (a), (c) and (d) are among them.
Prevention of stunting, undernutrition and anaemia in young children and women (b) is the aim of the nutrition programmes such as POSHAN Abhiyaan, not a pillar of INAP.
Which of the following statements are true?
a. New National Health Policy & Pradhan Mantri Matra Vandana Yojana both were started in the same year i.e. 2017.
b. This new National Health Policy was approved by the cabinet in 2017 after a gap of 15 years.
c. Ministry of Education is the nodal ministry for implementation of Poshan Abhiyan.
d. The Home-Based Care of Young child (HBYC) was launched in 2018.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The true statements are a, b and d.
The National Health Policy 2017 and Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana both began in 2017 (a). The new National Health Policy was approved by the cabinet in 2017, 15 years after the previous policy of 2002 (b). Home-Based Care of Young Child (HBYC), extending home visits by ASHAs into the second year of life, was launched in 2018 (d).
Statement c is wrong: the nodal ministry for POSHAN Abhiyaan is the Ministry of Women and Child Development, not the Ministry of Education.
Bleeding from nose i.e. "Nakseer" is due to vitiation of :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Nosebleed is due to vitiation of Pitta.
In Ayurveda, bleeding disorders come under raktapitta, in which aggravated pitta, the dosha of heat, disturbs the blood and makes it flow out through the body's openings. Bleeding from the nose (nakseer, or nasagata raktapitta) is the common upward form, and is often brought on by heat.
Kapha is the dosha of heaviness and mucus and is linked with congestion, not bleeding. Pratishyaya is the Ayurvedic name for coryza (common cold), and rhinitis is its modern equivalent; both are diseases, not doshas.
Which is not a programme under Ayushman Bharat programme?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The programme not under Ayushman Bharat is Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan.
Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan was a rural sanitation programme, the successor to the Total Sanitation Campaign, and it was replaced by the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) in 2014. It has nothing to do with Ayushman Bharat.
Ayushman Bharat, launched in 2018, has two pillars. One is the network of Health and Wellness Centres for comprehensive primary care. The other is Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, the hospital insurance cover, which was announced as the National Health Protection Scheme. So options C and D name the same component.
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Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20