Population and Health Policies Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Vasectomy is not a spacing method of family planning.

Spacing methods delay or space births and can be stopped to allow a pregnancy. Vasectomy is a surgical method of male sterilisation meant to be permanent, so it is a terminal or limiting method used by couples who want no more children.

Hormonal methods, barrier methods such as the condom and diaphragm, and the intrauterine device are all reversible spacing methods, so each of them is wrongly chosen as the exception.

Answer: D

Develop a local partnership for development is not a Millennium Development Goal.

The eighth Millennium Development Goal is to develop a global partnership for development, and the option has changed global to local, which makes it wrong.

Improving maternal health (goal 5), combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (goal 6) and ensuring environmental sustainability (goal 7) are all real goals as they are printed.

Answer: B

Both statements are correct, but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion, as the key gives. Hospitals do have the technology and expertise to treat disease, and treatment need not take place in a hospital.

The second statement does not explain why hospitals are equipped; it simply points out that treatment may be given elsewhere. So the option that makes the reason the explanation is wrong, and the options calling either statement false are also wrong.

Answer: B

The matching is the Bhore Committee with training in preventive and social medicine to prepare social physicians, the Jungalwalla Committee with integration of health services, the Mudaliar Committee with strengthening of referral linkages, and the Mukherjee Committee with recruitment of additional staff for effective implementation, which is the code iii ii i iv.

The other codes assign the integration or the referral recommendation to the wrong committee.

Answer: B

The members of Partners in Population and Development include China, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh and India, which is the second option. It is a south-south alliance of developing countries working on reproductive health and population.

The other groups include Bhutan, Pakistan, Myanmar or Nepal, which the key does not accept.

Answer: D

Ensuring socio-economic sustainability is not a Millennium Development Goal. The seventh goal is to ensure environmental sustainability, not socio-economic sustainability.

Eradicating extreme hunger and poverty is Goal 1, achieving universal primary education is Goal 2, and improving maternal health is Goal 5, so each of these three is a real goal and cannot be the answer to a question asking which is not one.

Answer: C

The correct matching is a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i.

World TB Day is observed on 24 March, World Health Day on 7 April, World AIDS Day on 1 December and World Population Day on 11 July.

The other codes put at least one of these dates on the wrong day. For example, the code that begins with (iii) gives World TB Day to 7 April, which is World Health Day, and the code that begins with (iv) gives it to 1 December.

Answer: D

The category that is not in the list of the Millennium Development Goals is right to education.

The eight goals were: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS and malaria, ensure environmental sustainability, and develop a global partnership for development.

A, B (printed as 'Proximate gender equality') and C are goals, while the goal on education is universal primary education, not a right to education in general.

Answer: A

Both statements are true and the reason explains the assertion, so the answer is A.

The National Rural Health Mission, begun in 2005, aimed to improve health care in villages. It brought gains in institutional deliveries and immunisation. ASHAs, the village-level women activists, link families with the health system and are a main reason for those gains.

B would treat R as unrelated, which is not so, and C and D would make a statement false, although some critics question the extent of the success.

Answer: C

The item that is not part of the Reproductive and Child Health scheme is the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana.

The RCH programme covers ante-natal care (the three check-ups), institutional delivery and post-partum services for mothers and care of the new-born.

The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, started in 2008, is a health insurance scheme for families below the poverty line, which is run separately from the RCH programme.