FMGE Social Medicine Question Base

A new drug does not prevents a disease from occurring but reduce death due to that disease. Which of the following is true:

Test which detects true negative is said to have:

Disease usually not seen in a country but brought from abroad is:

Surveillance is:

A Patient is made to walk early after Surgery. This is for:

Which of the following is secondary level of prevention:

Sensitivity of a screening test indicates:

Injectable tetanus toxoid is an example of active immunity:

Incubation period knowledge helps in all of the following except:

Associated with surveillance are all of the following except:

Prevalence is a:

True regarding cohort’s study are all of the following except:

Prevention of developing risk factors in CAD comes under :

Relative risk is associated with:

First noticed case of a disease is known as:

Herd Immunity is a feature of all of the following diseases except:

Relative risk can be calculated by:

Sentinel surveillance is used to detect:

Specificity of a diagnostic test denotes:

Cohort study is associated with:

Ability of a screening test to diagnose true positive refers to :

True regarding case control study are all of the following except:

Correct statement regarding longitudinal studies is :

What is Incidence Rate:

True about sentinel surveillance is:

Primordial prevention for CAD is:

False about case fatality rate:

True about simple randomization is :

Which of the following is a false statement regarding longitudinal studies:

Which of the following measures sensitivity:

ICD (International Classification of Diseases) are revised once in how many years :

Which of the following is not a part of Kuppuswamy’s socio-economic status scale:

Which of the following vaccine should not be kept in freezer:

Oral cholera vaccine is effective for:

Hepatitis B vaccine should be given as per which schedule :

BCG should be given:

Cell culture Rabies vaccine is given at:

BCG vaccine is diluted with:

For post -exposure prophylaxis, dose of human rabies  immunoglobulin is:

How many doses of MMR are given:

MMR vaccine is a type of:

Post exposure vaccination for measles should be done in :

Certificate of vaccination of Yellow Fever is valid for how many years:

Rabies vaccine is prepared from which strain of virus :

Which of the following is not a live vaccine:

Virus causing rabies in man is:

Quarantine period for yellow fever is:

Plaque is transmitted by:

True regarding elimination of neonatal tetanus in village :

Chandler’s index is associated with:

Vector for dengue fever is:

Natural reservoir of Chikungunya virus in India is:

As per WHO, anemia is considered to exist in pregnancy, if the hemoglobin level is below:

Disease spread by hard tick is:

Which of the following is spread by aedes mosquitoes:

Causative agent for oriental sore is:

Larvae of which of the following lies parallel to surface of water:

After the appearance of rash, prophylactic isolation of measles case is necessary for a minimum of :

All of the following diseases are reported to WHO except :

Scrub typhus is spread by :

Immunoglobulin is used for all of the following diseases except:

Culex mosquito spreads all of the following disease except :

Measles is infective for:

Which of the following is best for ante-mortem diagnosis of rabies :

Which of the following is not a part of management in grade III dog bite infected with rabies:

A person has episodes of vomiting 6 hrs after consuming milk. Organism responsible for this may be:

Infectivity period of chickenpox is:

Which of the following is not a complication of mumps :

Case notification under international health regulations is done for which of the following:

Influenza shows which type of trend:

Dengue is transmitted by:

Which of the following disease has an incubation period of less than 1 week :

Which of the following diseases is under international surveillance:

False statement regarding japanese encephalitis is:

KFD is transmitted by:

True statement regarding poliomyelitis is:

Hypertension is associated with all of the following except :

WHO notifiable disease are all of the following except :

Incubation period of Rabies depends on:

Poliomyelitis is diagnosed by:

Amongst the following, which carries the least chance of transmitting HIV infection:

Swine Flu pandemic in 2009 was caused due to which strain :

Which of the following is not included in the primary prevention for hypertension:

All of the following features are seen in dengue hemorrhagic fever except:

Which of the following diseases is not covered under WHO International Health regulation:

Most common cancer worldwide is:

Carrier state is not seen in which infection:

Scrub typhus is transmitted by:

Which of the following shows “cyclodevelopmental” type of biological transmission:

Causative agent for kala-azar/ visceral leishmaniasis:

Amplifier host for Japanese encephalitis is:

Clinical goal for prevention of coronary heart disease aims at lowering the ratio of cholesterol/ HDL below:

Incubation period of measles is:

Vector for Yellow fever is:

Kyasanur forest disease is transmitted by:

To achieve a NRR of 1, Couple protection rate should be :

Eligible couple is defined as:

PQLI includes all of the following except:

Denominator for calculating infant mortality rate is:

Maternal mortality rate is calculated as death of a woman upto a period of:

Total fertility rate is defined as:

Eligible couple is defined as:

Denominator for maternal mortality rate is:

Sullivan index denotes:

Infant Mortality Rate for japan is :

According to 2001 census the male: female ratio [sex ratio] in India was:

According to 2001 census, what was the growth rate of India:

India is at which stage of Demographic cycle:

Human Development Index includes all of the following except:

Which of the following better correlates with Sullivan’s index:

Denominator while calculating secondary attack rate following a person with a primary disease is:

Child -Women ratio is the number of child per:

The number of girls a woman would bear if she passes through her reproductive age with the same fertility rate gives:

Denominator for calculating perinatal mortality rate is :

Percentage of children of under 4 years of age in India is :

According to WHO guidelines, number of check-ups/antenatal visits for a woman having normal uncomplicated pregnancy is:

True statement regarding ‘at risk baby’:

All of the following are components of the Kuppuswamy’s scale except:

Infant Mortality Rate of India as per 2007 census is:

As per census 2001,  most populous state during 1991-2001 was:

Urban population of India as per census 2001 is:

Which of the following is not included in neonatal mortality :

Most common cause of maternal mortality in India is :

Mortality rates are taken into account while calculating :

For international comparisons, perinatal mortality rate is calculated as late fetal deaths (28 weeks gestation or more) plus early neonatal deaths (first week) [weighing over 1 kg at birth] in a year per:

The upper line in growth chart denotes what percentile of WHO reference standard:

Exclusive breast feeding is recommended by WHO upto :

Dietary fibres are rich in:

In India, percentage of energy from fats should be less than :

Daily required dose of iron in an adult man is:

First dose of vitamin A should be given at:

Toxin responsible for epidemic dropsy is:

Differences between human milk and cow milk are all of the following except:

Meals supplied in mid day meals programme should provide:

Pellagra is due to deficiency of:

Fish liver oil is the richest source of :

Number of calories in 100 grams of breast milk is:

Amount of proteins in human milk (in gms):

Vitamin A prophylaxis is given to children every:

WHO defines BMI of the malnourished as:

Folic acid requirement during lactation is:

Recommended initial dose of Vitamin “A” for prophylaxis in a 9 month old child is:

A patient of total parenteral nutrition develops delayed wound healing, loss of taste, deficient immunity and diarrhea. Most probably it could be due to deficiency of:

Calories required by one year old child is:

1st symptom of vitamin A deficiency:

Vitamin not present in breast milk:

When milk is taken before meal which of the following element’s absorption is decreased:

Best indicator for monitoring the effectiveness of iodine deficiency control programme is:

How many gram of protein is given in mid day meal scheme :

Extra calories required during pregnancy state is:

Deficiency of zinc causes all of the following except:

Vitamin K is required for-

Under National Programme for Prevention of Nutritional Blindness, a child in the age group of 6-11 months is given a single dose of vitamin A is:

Which of the following vitamin may have an anti infective action:

All of the following are antioxidant except:

Thiamine deficiency may be seen in all of the following except:

Which of the following is false regarding acrodermatitis enteropathica:

Wernicke’s encephalopathy results due to deficiency of :

Requirement of iron during pregnancy is fin mg.]:

Which of the following is uncommon symptom of deficiency of vitamin A:

Cereals provided in mid -day meals:

Vitamin D is maximally found in:

Human milk as compared to cow’s milk is:

Zinc is not required for:

Active form of Vitamin D is:

Which of the following prevalence rates indicates xerophthalmia problem in the community:

What is the dosage of retinol palmitate for early stages of xerophthalmia:

Mid day meal should provide:

In ORS, the effect of glucose on sodium absorption is :

Sodium content in reduced osmolarity ORS is:

Depth of water seal in RCA sanitary latrine of India:

Amount of free residual chlorine in drinking water:

Amount of chlorine needed to kill cyclops in drinking water is:

Guideline value for drinking water is:

Which of the following is false regarding repairable dust :

Recommended flouride concentration in water to prevent caries is:

Nitrates in drinking water indicates:

The acceptable noise level that can be tolerated without any damage to hearing is:

Which o the following is the most reliable bacteriological indicator of water pollution:

Softening of hard water is requires if level of hardness exceeds:

Sequence of the substances used in the Nalgonda’s technique for defluoridation of water:

The disinfecting action of chlorine during chlorination is mainly due to the action of:

Which of the following is not consistent with problem village:

Who should be trained in a community for house to house surveys:

Community health center covers a population of:

National rural health mission is started by prime minister in:

A primary health care center should provide all except :

Which of the following is posted at a sub center:

Which of the following committee proposed the concept of primary health center in India:

All were the goals for National health policy 2002 except :

Rural population under one primary health center in plain areas in India is:

True about Millennium development goals:

All of the following are present in a subcenter except :

A health guide works at:

Which of the following is incorrect about ASHA:

Death needs to be registered within:

Which of the following is not a part of duties of anganwadi worker:

Number of beds in a CHC is:

Kartar singh committee recommendations are related to:

Which of the following is a duty of multipurpose worker male :

As per RCH, which of the following is the first referral unit:

Community development block includes:

Not an objective of National mental health programme :

Principles of primary health care include all except:

Which of the following is the best indicator of environmental iodine deficiency : 

ROME (reorientation of medical education) scheme was introduced consequent to the recommendation of :

Not a function of primary health care center:

Population covered by PHC in a tribal area:

Duty of a female health assistant is:

Health assistant should make reports of births and deaths occurring in their area every:

At PHC, which of the following collect thick and thin smear from every fever case coming to him:

False regarding Janani suraksha yojna:

Which of the following is not a grass -root level worker :

Urban health center caters to a population of:

Considering the table given below, odds ratio can be calculated as :

Weight of 9 students of a class is as follows- 72, 74, 76, 72, 76, 78, 80, 73 and 72. What is the mode:

Standard deviation is defined as:

Significant value of “p” is:

All of the following are measures of dispersion EXCEPT :

Percentage of a data can be depicted on a:

A continuous quantitative data can be depicted with the help of:

In a normal distribution curve, the true statement is: