136 - AIIMS community medicine mcqs or social and preventive medicine mcqs ( spm or psm ) from all previous years AIIMS papers with answers - part 29

146q: drug which is given for prophylaxis of meningococcal contacts ?

a. erythromycin
b. tetracycline
c. rifampicin
d. pencillin

 answer  c . rifampicin .

147q: all are measures of primordial prevention of hypertension except ?

a. dietary changes
b. restrain smoking
c. identification of hypertensive
d. regular physical exercise

 answer c. identification of hypertensive 

148q: disease to be eradicated by the year 2000 AD is ?

a. typhoid
b. tetanus neonatorum
c. filaria
d. malaria

 answer b. tetanus neonatorum 

149q: in calculating the incidence of AIDS , denominator is ?

a. population at risk
b. total population
c. mid year population
d. observed population

 answer  a . population at risk .

150q: one family is choosed at random . then every fifth family is chosen . the method used is ?

a. cohort study
b. systematic sampling
c. stratified sampling
d. random sampling

 answer  b . systematic sampling .