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The science and art of preventing diseases, prolonging life, promoting health and working
well with minimum resources through organized community effort is called?
a. Health
b. Public health
c. Occupational health
d. Mental health
2. The following are components of public health except?
a) Therapeutic
b) Curative
c) Preventive
d) Rehabilitative
3. The process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health si
known as?
a. Preventive services
b. Curative services
c. Rehabilitative services
d. Promotive services
4. Activities that address social determinants of health which influence modifiable risk
behaviors are called?
a. Curative services
b. Rehabilitative services
c. Preventive services
a. Promotive services
5. The following are social determinants of health that affect the health status of people
except?
a. Economy
b. Genetics
c. Culture
d. Government
6. Which of the following is not a modifiable risk behavior that contributes to the
development of chronic diseases?
 a. Tobacco smoking
b. Poor eating habits
c. Lack of physical activities
d. Health seeking behaviour
7. The prevention of the occurrence of health problems is referred to as?
a. Secondary Prevention
b. Tertiary Prevention
c. Primary Prevention
d. Curative Prevention
8. The detection and treatment of existing problems at the earliest possible time when the
disease has occurred is termed?
a. Secondary Prevention
b. Tertiary Prevention
c. Primary Prevention
d. Curative Prevention
9. The reduction in the extent and severity of a health problem to its lowest possible level in
order to minimize disability and restore or preserve function known as?
a. Secondary Prevention
b. Tertiary Prevention
c. Primary Prevention
d. Rehabilitative Prevention
10. Activities that aim at eliminating the diseases are called?
a. Preventive Services
b. Promotive Services
c. Curative Services
d. Rehabilitative Services
11. Services that help one get back or improve skills and functioning for daily living that
have been lost or impaired because one was sick, hurt or disabled are termed?
a. Preventive Services
b. Promotive Services
c. Curative Services
 d. Rehabilitative Services
12. The ongoing process of assessing whether the set goals or targets have been
accomplished is referred to as?
a. Monitoring
b. Evaluation
c. Assessment
d. Reflection
13. The continued watchfulness over the distribution and trends of incidence through the
systematic collection, consolidation and evaluation of morbidity and mortality reports is
called?
a. Disease surveillance
b. Pharmarco-vigilance
c. Drug surveillance
d. Disease audit
14. A pledge to the public by those within the various health disciplines that they will work
towards the goal of an optimal achievable degree of excellence in the services provided is
termed?
a. Quality improvement
b. Quality audit
c. Monitoring
d. Quality assurance
15. Any human-made or natural event that causes destruction and devastation that cannot be
relieved without assistance is referred to as?
a. Emergency
b. Disaster
c. Hazard
d. Accident
16. Something dangerous or serious such as an accident, which happens suddenly or
unexpectedly and needs immediate action in order to avoid harmful results is called?
a. Emergency
b. Disaster
 c. Hazard
d. Accident
17. Any phenomenon that has the potential to cause disruption or damage to people and their
environment is called?
a. Emergency
b. Disaster
c. Hazard
d. Accident
18. A programme of long term development of activities whose goals are to strengthen the
overall capacity and capability of a country to manage efficiently all types of emergency
is called?
a. Disaster mitigation
b. Emergency preparedness
c. Disaster response
d. Risk management
19. The attempt to prevent hazards from developing into disasters altogether or to reduce the
effects of disasters when they occur is termed?
a. Disaster mitigation
b. Emergency preparedness
c. Disaster response
d. Risk management
20. The mobilization of the necessary emergency services and first responders in the disaster
area is called?
a. Disaster mitigation
b. Emergency preparedness
c. Disaster response
d. Risk management
21. The study of the distribution, causes and control of community health problems is
referred to as?
a. Community diagnosis
b. Epidemiology
 c. Biostatistics
d. Research
22. Diseases that are spread by direct contact with an infectious agent are known as?
a. Airborne diseases
b. Droplet infections
c. Waterborne diseases
d. Communicable diseases
23. The number of new cases of diseases arising in a population during a certain time is
referred to as?
a. Prevalence rate
b. Epidemiology
c. Incidence rate
d. Pandemic

24. The number of persons with disease which is present in a population including old and
new cases is called?

a. Prevalence rate

b. Epidemiology
c. Incidence rate
d. Pandemic
25. The science of the ecology of disease is referred to as?
a. Prevalence rate
b. Epidemiology
c. Incidence rate
d. Pandemic

CROSS MATCHING QUESTIONS

Match the following phases of an epidemiological study in column A with their
descriptions in column B
Column A Column B
1. Diagnosis_____________
2. Intervention____________
3. Monitoring____________
4. Decision making________
5. Analysis_______________
6. Experimentation________
7. Investigation___________
8. Description___________