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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Additional daily energy requirement during the first 6 months for a lactating woman is: |
| A. | 350 K calories |
| B. | 450 K calories |
| C. | 550 K calories |
| D. | 650 K calories |
| Answer» D. 650 K calories | |
| 2. |
Residual chlorine is detected by - |
| A. | Horrock's test |
| B. | Ortho-toluidine test |
| C. | Chromatography |
| D. | Polarimeter |
| Answer» C. Chromatography | |
| 3. |
Plasmodium vivax malaria in pregnancy should be treated in pregnancy by: |
| A. | Chloroquine |
| B. | Quinine |
| C. | Pyrimethamine |
| D. | Mefloquine |
| Answer» B. Quinine | |
| 4. |
Best method to variability is - |
| A. | Mean |
| B. | Mode |
| C. | Median |
| D. | Standard deviation |
| Answer» E. | |
| 5. |
True about prevalence are all except: |
| A. | Prevalence is of two types |
| B. | Rate |
| C. | P=I x D |
| D. | Specifically for old and new cases |
| Answer» C. P=I x D | |
| 6. |
In a village of 100 children,60% are immunised against measles.One child travelled outside and returned with measles and infected other 26 children.What is the secondary attack rate |
| A. | 0.67 |
| B. | 0.27 |
| C. | 0.5 |
| D. | 0.8 |
| Answer» B. 0.27 | |
| 7. |
Epidemic typhus is spread by |
| A. | Rat flea |
| B. | Louse |
| C. | Hard tick |
| D. | Soft tick |
| Answer» C. Hard tick | |
| 8. |
All are true regarding Point-source Epidemic except: |
| A. | Children are most commonly affected |
| B. | All cases occur abruptly and simultaneously |
| C. | No secondary waves |
| D. | Occurs within a specified period |
| Answer» B. All cases occur abruptly and simultaneously | |
| 9. |
All the following are Standards laid down by the Factories Act except |
| A. | Minimum 500 cubic feet space per worker |
| B. | Maximum working hours including overtime per week : 60 hours |
| C. | Defines any factory that employs 10 or more workers where power is not used |
| D. | Prohibition of employment of children below 14 yrs of age |
| Answer» D. Prohibition of employment of children below 14 yrs of age | |
| 10. |
A state of disease endemicity in which disease transmission has been stopped but the agent persists is: |
| A. | Elimination |
| B. | Eradication |
| C. | Holoendemic |
| D. | Control |
| Answer» B. Eradication | |
| 11. |
Health education: |
| A. | Is delivered through public health agencies only |
| B. | Does not help in prevention of cancer |
| C. | Is health promotion |
| D. | Is health distortion |
| Answer» D. Is health distortion | |
| 12. |
Screening of the disease is which type of prevention ? |
| A. | Primordial |
| B. | Primary |
| C. | Secondary |
| D. | Tertiary |
| Answer» D. Tertiary | |
| 13. |
Protein content of rice is: |
| A. | 1.0g% |
| B. | 7.0g% |
| C. | 11.0g% |
| D. | 17g% |
| Answer» C. 11.0g% | |
| 14. |
Concurrent list does not encompass: |
| A. | Prevention of adulteration of food stuffs |
| B. | Prevention of extension of communicable disease from one unit to another |
| C. | Vital statistics |
| D. | Regulation and development of medical profession |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15. |
Sickness benefit under ESI is available for a period of: |
| A. | 56 days |
| B. | 86 days |
| C. | 30 days |
| D. | 46 days |
| Answer» C. 30 days | |
| 16. |
Safe disposal of mercury is |
| A. | Treatment with chemicals |
| B. | Deep burial |
| C. | Collect carefully and recycle |
| D. | Controlled combustion |
| Answer» D. Controlled combustion | |
| 17. |
Children surveyed in cluster sampling for coverage of national immunization programme in ? |
| A. | 30 cluster of 5 children |
| B. | 20 cluster of 5 children |
| C. | 30 cluster of 10 children |
| D. | 30 cluster of 7 children |
| Answer» E. | |
| 18. |
Which epidemiological study gives the most accurate result ? |
| A. | Meta analysis |
| B. | Cross-section study |
| C. | Randomized control trial with double blinding |
| D. | Cohort study |
| Answer» B. Cross-section study | |
| 19. |
Measles vaccination given to all children between 9 months to 15 years under - |
| A. | Follow up |
| B. | Keep up |
| C. | Catch up |
| D. | Mop up |
| Answer» D. Mop up | |
| 20. |
Dharmendra's index and Jopling's classification deals with: |
| A. | Leprosy |
| B. | TB |
| C. | Polio |
| D. | Syphilis |
| Answer» B. TB | |
| 21. |
Waste sharps should be disposed in ? |
| A. | Blue bag |
| B. | Black bag |
| C. | Red bag |
| D. | Yellow bag |
| Answer» B. Black bag | |
| 22. |
Exposure to cotton dust in a textile factory causes |
| A. | Bagassosis |
| B. | Byssinosis |
| C. | Anthracosis |
| D. | Silicosis |
| Answer» C. Anthracosis | |
| 23. |
Society is defined as - |
| A. | A conglomeration people |
| B. | A group people bound with social norms |
| C. | An association with regulated membership |
| D. | An association patterned the norms of interation |
| Answer» C. An association with regulated membership | |
| 24. |
The Hb level is healthy women has mean 13.5g/dl and standard deviation 1.5g/dl, what is the Z score for a woman with Hb level 15.0g/dl: |
| A. | 2 |
| B. | 1 |
| C. | 9 |
| D. | 10 |
| Answer» C. 9 | |
| 25. |
All are criteria for normal Indian Reference male except - |
| A. | 2200 Kcal/day |
| B. | 60 kg |
| C. | 20-39 age |
| D. | 8 hours in bed |
| Answer» B. 60 kg | |
| 26. |
The following statements about meningococcal meningitis are true except: |
| A. | Chemoprophylaxis of close contacts of cases is recommended |
| B. | The vaccines is not affective in children below 2 yrs of age |
| C. | The source of infection is mainly clinical cases |
| D. | The disease is more common in dry and cold months of the year |
| Answer» D. The disease is more common in dry and cold months of the year | |
| 27. |
Wrong about Mother and Child Health programme is - |
| A. | Useful for children upto 12 years of age |
| B. | It's objective is to prevent against chronic disease |
| C. | 100% immunization to be done by 200 A.D. against six vaccine preventable disease |
| D. | To decrease acute respiratory infections |
| Answer» B. It's objective is to prevent against chronic disease | |
| 28. |
Small pox eradication was not due to: |
| A. | Cross-immunity with animal pox virus |
| B. | Highly effective vaccine |
| C. | Life long immunity |
| D. | Subclinical infection do not transmit the disease |
| Answer» B. Highly effective vaccine | |
| 29. |
All are common cause of blindness in children in India except, |
| A. | Malnutrition |
| B. | Opthalmia neonatorum |
| C. | Glaucoma |
| D. | Congenital dacryocystitis |
| Answer» E. | |
| 30. |
KAP studies in India were first used to study |
| A. | Malaria |
| B. | HIV |
| C. | Cancer cervix |
| D. | Family planning |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
The ability of a screening test to correctly identify those who do not have the disease is known as |
| A. | Specificity |
| B. | Sensitivity |
| C. | Positive predictive value |
| D. | Negative predictive value |
| Answer» B. Sensitivity | |
| 32. |
Multi-purpose worker scheme in India was introduced following the recommendation of : |
| A. | Bhore Committee |
| B. | Srivastava Committee |
| C. | Mudaliar Committee |
| D. | Kartar Singh Committee |
| Answer» E. | |
| 33. |
Under NRHM all happen at district level except ? |
| A. | Monitoring |
| B. | Planning |
| C. | Policy formulation |
| D. | Implementation |
| Answer» D. Implementation | |
| 34. |
Height to weight is a/an - |
| A. | Association |
| B. | Correlation |
| C. | Proportion |
| D. | Index |
| Answer» B. Correlation | |
| 35. |
The following statements are true about DPT vaccine except: |
| A. | Presence of acellular pertusis component increase its immunogenecity |
| B. | Presence of H.influenzae type B component increases its immunogenecity |
| C. | Aluminium salt has an adjuvant effect |
| D. | Whole killed bacteria of Bordetella pertussis has an adjuvant effect |
| Answer» C. Aluminium salt has an adjuvant effect | |
| 36. |
S.D. is 1.96 the confidence limit is : |
| A. | 0.666 |
| B. | 0.636 |
| C. | 0.99 |
| D. | 0.95 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
Which of the following is Not a component of primary health care - |
| A. | Adequate nutrition |
| B. | Adequate housing |
| C. | Safe water supply |
| D. | Provision of essential drugs |
| Answer» C. Safe water supply | |
| 38. |
In 13-15 year female child, Recommended Daily protein Intake is - |
| A. | 0.68 |
| B. | 0.95 |
| C. | 1 |
| D. | 1.33 |
| Answer» D. 1.33 | |
| 39. |
Epidemiological features true for Japanese B-encephalitis include all of the following except |
| A. | Man is an incidental host |
| B. | The virus infects extra-human hosts |
| C. | Epidemics have been reported in Karnataka |
| D. | Infected pigs manifest symptoms of encephalitis |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
Rat flea transmits all the following except |
| A. | Plague |
| B. | Salmonellosis |
| C. | Hymenolopsis |
| D. | Endemic typhus |
| Answer» C. Hymenolopsis | |
| 41. |
In Vision 2020, Ophthalmic personnel per population ratio is - |
| A. | 5000 |
| B. | 10000 |
| C. | 50000 |
| D. | 1 lac |
| Answer» D. 1 lac | |
| 42. |
True about Pasteurization of milk is all except: |
| A. | Does not kill spores |
| B. | Does not kill thermoduric bacteria |
| C. | Kills tubercle bacillus |
| D. | Cause>95% decrease in bacterial count |
| Answer» E. | |
| 43. |
A test was done to compare serum cholesterol levels in obese and non-obese women.The test for significance of difference is: |
| A. | Paired T test |
| B. | Student T test for independent variables |
| C. | Chi square |
| D. | fischer test |
| Answer» C. Chi square | |
| 44. |
Low prevalence, high incidence is seen in ? |
| A. | Highly fetal disease |
| B. | Easily curable disease |
| C. | Highly infectious low mortality disease |
| D. | Chronic disease |
| Answer» B. Easily curable disease | |
| 45. |
Kallu,a 22 year old male had an outing with his friends and developed fever of 38.5 degree C,diarrhoea and vomiting following eating chicken salad.24 hours back.Two of his friends developed the same symptoms.The diagnosis is |
| A. | Salmonella enteritis poisoning |
| B. | Bacillus cereus |
| C. | Staphylococcus aureus |
| D. | Vibrio cholera |
| Answer» B. Bacillus cereus | |
| 46. |
All the following are examples of Nominal scale except |
| A. | Race |
| B. | Sex |
| C. | Iris color |
| D. | Blood pressure |
| Answer» E. | |
| 47. |
Efficiency of a Goitre control programme can be assessed using - |
| A. | Goitre in age group of 12 to 18 years |
| B. | Soil iodine levels |
| C. | Neonatal thyroxine levels |
| D. | Goitre in pregnancy |
| Answer» D. Goitre in pregnancy | |
| 48. |
In a slow sand filter, the element responsible for yielding bacteria-free water is the - |
| A. | Valve |
| B. | Vital layer |
| C. | Supenatant water |
| D. | Under-drainage system |
| Answer» C. Supenatant water | |
| 49. |
Goal for blindness under NCPB-NRHM is to reduce prevalence of blindness in 2020 to ? |
| A. | 0.001 |
| B. | 0.003 |
| C. | 0.005 |
| D. | 0.01 |
| Answer» C. 0.005 | |
| 50. |
Population greater than 60 years in 2001 census is ? |
| A. | 0.057 |
| B. | 0.062 |
| C. | 0.074 |
| D. | 0.081 |
| Answer» D. 0.081 | |