121 - AIIMS community medicine mcqs or social and preventive medicine mcqs ( spm or psm ) from all previous years AIIMS papers with answers - part 15

71q: vaccine contraindicated in pregnancy is ?

a. rubella
b. typhoid
c. diphtheria
d. hepatitis B

 answer  a and b . rubella and typhoid . but rubella is a betteroption than typhoid to pick in the examination .

72q: chemoprophylaxis is not required in ?

a. typhoid
b. meningococcal meningitis
c. bacterial conjunctivitis
d. malaria

 answer  a . typhoid . 

73q: prevalence is a

a. rate
b. ratio
c. proportion
d. mean

 answer  b . ratio . it refers to all the current cases existing at a given point of time . although it is referred to as a rate it is a ratio .

74q: denominator of maternal mortality rate is ?

a. per 1000 deaths
b. per 1000 live births
c. per 1000 mother deaths
d. per 1000 deaths of children

 answer  b . per 1000 live births .

75q: most sensitive indicator of recent transmission of malaria in a 

community is ?

a. infant parasite rate
b. annual parasite rate
c. spleen rate
d. mosquito rate

 answer  a . infant parasite rate .

108 - AIIMS community medicine mcqs or social and preventive medicine mcqs ( spm or psm ) from all previous years AIIMS papers with answers - part 2

6q: most common cause of IUGR is ?

a. idiopathic
b. intra uterine infection
c. PIH
d. Smoking

 answer a. idiopathic 

7q: carriers are not seen in ?

a. measles
b. meningitis
c. diphtheria
d. typhoid

 answer a. measles 

8q: vaccine contraindicated in pregnancy ?

a. rubella
b. yellow fever
c. influenza
d. BCG

 answer  a . rubella . all the live vaccines are contraindicated in  pregnancy . though all the given options are live vaccines the  best option is rubella . mumps , measles , rubella are normally  contraindicated in pregnancy . influenza has both live and killed vaccines. 

9q: variables in form of mild , moderate and severe is given . method used to analyze is ?

a. nominal
b. ordinal
c. interval
d. variance

 answer b. ordinal 

10q: about tests of significance between two large populations, one of the following statements is true ?

a. null hypothesis states that 2 means are equal
b. standard error of difference is the sum of standard error of 2 means
c. standard error of means are equal
d. standard error of difference between population is calculated

 answer d. standard error of difference between population is calculated