A fresh set of 20 random questions is generated every time you open this page and every time you refresh it.For each of the following multiple choice questions, choose the most appropriate answer :
1. Under the National Rural Health Mission, an ASHA will receive financial remuneration for all of the following except
A. Institutional deliveries
B. Measuring the birth weight of neonates
C. 1st dose of DPT and OPV
D. Registration of births
2. Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) in India is defined as
A. Very low weight for age (below-3 Z scores of the mean WHO standards for growth), by visible severe wasting or presence of nutritional edema
B. Very low weight for age (below -3 Z scores of the mean WHO standards for growth) only
C. Visible severe wasting, or presence of nutritional edema
D. Very low weight for height (below -3 Z scores of the mean WHO standards for growth), by visible severe wasting, or presence of nutritional edema
3. If Blindness is surveyed using Schools as compared to Population Surveys, then estimation of preva-lence of blindness will have?
A. Overestimation
B. Underestimation
C. Remains same
D. None of them is used for evaluation
4. Which of the following diseases is not under surveillance in Integrated Disease Surveillance Project?
A. Snake bite
B. Acute Respiratory Tract Infections
C. Tuberculosis
D. Leptospirosis
5. A girl is having white hair. 40% of her classmates are also suffering from the same problem. None of the other people from the same village have white hair. Her brother who is staying with an aunt in the neighbouring village is also normal and does not have white hair. Which of the following explains the probable cause of her white hair?
A. Environmental
B. Genetic
C. Nutritional
D. None of these
6. The prospectively evaluated, double-blinded, randomized clinical trial represents the gold standard for providing evidence for therapeutic decision making. This was first proposed by the father of evidence-based medicine:
A. Tolstoy
B. Sackett
C. Hippocrates
D. da Vinci
7. Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a complication observed with which of the following vaccines?
A. MMR
B. Hib conjugate polysaccharide vaccine
C. Typhoid Vi polysaccharide vaccine
D. Influenza vaccine
8. A boy complained of unprovoked bite by a local dog in the community. The dog was alter caught by the local animal authorities and appeared to be healthy. The most appropriate course of action would be
A. Give post-exposure prophylaxis to the bitten person with cell-culture derived vaccine
B. Withhold vaccination, keep the dog under observation for ten days for signs of rabies
C. Test the dog for rabies antibodies
D. Immediately carry out euthanasia of the dog
9. WHO criteria for High endemicity for Meningococcal disease include
A. 0.1%
B. 0.01%
C. 0.001%
D. 1.0%
10. All can be used to reduce the risk of transmission of HIV to neonate in a pregnanct-woman except
A. Vaginal Delivery
B. Vitamin A supplementation
C. Stopping Breast feeding
D. Zidovudine to mother antenatal and newborn after delivery
11. The hemoglobin levels of pregnant females in a community was found to have a mean of 10.6 g/dL and a standard deviation of 2 g/dL. What is the minimum hemoglobin level below which 5% of the pregnant females will have their hemoglobin levels?
A. 7.32
B. 8.64
C. 6.68
D. 8.96
12. Natural Disaster causing maximum deaths
A. Hydrological
B. Geological
C. Meteorological
D. Climatological
13. A study revealed lesser incidence of carcinoma colon in pure vegetarians than non-vegetarians; by which it was concluded that Beta-carotene is protective against cancer. This may not be true because the vegetarian subjects may be consuming high fiber diet which is protective against cancer. This is an example of
A. Multifactorial Causation
B. Causal Association
C. Confounding factor
D. Common association
14. ASHA gets remuneration on all except
A. Institutional delivery
B. Zero doses of OPV and BCG
C. Recording birth weight www.examrace.com
D. Birth registration
15. Positive predictive value is a function of sensitivity, specificity and
A. Absolute risk
B. Relative risk
C. Incidence
D. Prevalence
16. Which is false regarding period of communicability?
A. Measles 1-2 days before to 3 days after rash
B. Chickenpox 1-2 days before to 4-5 days after rash
C. Mumps 4-6 days before to 1 week after rash
D. German measles 7 days before and after rash
17. Ridley Jopling Leprosy classiication is a type of
A. Clinical, bacteriological, Immunological, epidemiological classiication
B. Clinical, bacteriological, Immunological, therapeutic classiication
C. Clinical, bacteriological, Immunological, histological classiication
D. Operational classiication
18. Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a complication observed with which of the following vaccines?
A. MMR
B. HiB conjugate polysaccharide vaccine
C. Typhoid Vi polysaccharide vaccine
D. Influenza vaccine
19. Which of the following is best suited for the role of social worker
A. Health professional involved in physiotherapy
B. Health professional involved in coping strategies, interpersonal skills, adjustment with family
C. A person involved in finding jobs and economic support for disabled
D. Health professional
20. Which of the following regarding oral polio vaccine (OPV) is not true?
A. Useful in epidemics
B. Excretion of virus in stools may cause disease to the unimmunized
C. Rapid antibody response
D. Protective even in the presence of maternal antibodies
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