138 - AIIMS community medicine mcqs or social and preventive medicine mcqs ( spm or psm ) from all previous years AIIMS papers with answers - part 31

156q: true about cross sectional study are all except ?

a. less expensive
b. less time required
c. many outcomes are possible
d. relationship between cause and effect possible

 answer d. relationship between cause and effect possible 

157q: chandler’s index is meant for ?

a. filariasis
b. ankylostoma
c. guinea worm
d. round worm

 answer  b. ankylostoma . 

158q: extra calories required during lactation ?

 answer 550 kcal .

159q: all are true regarding case fatality rate except ?

a. killing power of disease
b. more useful in chronic diseases
c. value changes with different epidemic
d. time interval is not considered

 answer  b . it is rarely useful in chronic diseases .

160q: time interval between primary and secondary case is ?

a. serial interval
b. extrinsic incubation period
c. period of communicability
d. intrinsic incubation period

 answer a. serial interval 

138 - AIIMS community medicine mcqs or social and preventive medicine mcqs ( spm or psm ) from all previous years AIIMS papers with answers - part 31

156q: true about cross sectional study are all except ?

a. less expensive
b. less time required
c. many outcomes are possible
d. relationship between cause and effect possible

 answer d. relationship between cause and effect possible 

157q: chandler’s index is meant for ?

a. filariasis
b. ankylostoma
c. guinea worm
d. round worm

 answer  b. ankylostoma . 

158q: extra calories required during lactation ?

 answer 550 kcal .

159q: all are true regarding case fatality rate except ?

a. killing power of disease
b. more useful in chronic diseases
c. value changes with different epidemic
d. time interval is not considered

 answer  b . it is rarely useful in chronic diseases .

160q: time interval between primary and secondary case is ?

a. serial interval
b. extrinsic incubation period
c. period of communicability
d. intrinsic incubation period

 answer a. serial interval 

109 - AIIMS community medicine mcqs or social and preventive medicine mcqs ( spm or psm ) from all previous years AIIMS papers with answers - part 3

11q: community physician takes action based on

a. population attributable risk
b. relative risk
c. attributable risk
d. odds ratio

 answer a. population attributable risk 

12q: all of the following are methods of health promotion except ?

a. immunization
b. nutritional education
c. behavioral changes
d. health education

 answer a. immunization 

13q: all of the following are included in health sector planning except ?

a. medical education
b. family planning
c. control of communicable diseases
d. water and sanitation facilities

 answer none. All of them are included in health sector planning 

14q: chandler’s index is

 answer  number of eggs / gram of stool . the eggs here are hookworm eggs .  if the value is less than 200 , hookworm is not of  much significance . if the value is between 200 and 250 , it may  be regarded as a potential danger . if the value is between 250  and 300 , it may be regarded as a minor public health problem  and if the value is greater than 300 , then it is an important public health problem

15q: most important feature of the screening test is ?

a. predictability
b. sensitivity
c. specificity
d. yield

 answer b. sensitivity 

23 - DNB june 2008 PSM (community medicine) mcqs

1)Neonatal tetanus eliminated when incidence – is Less than 0.1/ 1000
2)Contribution of employer in ESIS – 4.75%
3)Clorination of water criteria – Clear water
4)Rat flea – Endemic typhus
5)Not transmitted by mosquito – Kala azar
6)Epidemiological investigation of choce for kala azar - ELISA /Montenegro test/ Aldehyde test/??
7)Natural mosquito control agent – Pyrethrum
8)reading of abraded skin by dog – Class 2 – So Vaccine only
9)Sullivan's index-life free of disability
10)Entry of pathogen & maximum infectivity-Generation time
11)Definitive diagnosis of leprosy – skin smear
12)Antigenic shift is in – influenza
13)True of carrier in typhoid – urinary carrier with anomaly
14)Shortest incubation period in food poisioning – Staph aureus
15)Chandler's index – ankylostoma duodenle
16)Drakunculosis transmitted by – Drinking Contaminated water
17)Multibacillary Leprosy is followed upto – 5 Years
18)The concept of Female Health guide was given by – Kartar Singh
19)Socrate's method of health education is by – ?Didactic method/Group discussion
20)Best guide of iron defiency – Serum ferritin
21)Different communities best compared by – Age specific death rate
22)Burden of disease formula – (Positives/Tested)*Population
23)Comfortable temp range – 77-80F
24)Mother to be labelled high risk – Ht less than 140cm
25)Efficiency of Malaria elimination program is evaluated using – ABER
26)Prophylaxis to maniac person not on medication coming to bihar ? ans : mefloquine.
27)Percentage of para para in DDT-- 70-80%
28)Corpulence index used in – Obesity
29)Correct statement – ans-Population density 324/sq km / TFR- 6/ growth ratio – 2.2/??