PUBLIC HEALTH MCQS
1. What is the primary goal of public health?
a) Treating diseases
b) Prolonging life
c) Providing medical services
d) Increasing healthcare costs
2. Which of the following is NOT a component of public health work?
a) Sanitation of the environment
b) Providing medical services for disease treatment
c) Social action for ensuring adequate living standards
d) Early diagnosis and prompt treatment of diseases
3. What is the main focus of public health nursing?
a) Individual patient care
b) Improving community health through organized efforts
c) Providing medical treatment in hospitals
d) Conducting medical research
4. Who was responsible for laying the foundation of public health administration in England?
a) Mead Pringles Lined
b) Edwin Chadwick
c) Dr. John Simon
d) Lady Health Visitors
5. What was the immediate origin of public health legislation in England?
a) Great Public Health Act of 1875
b) The invention of the steam engine
c) Cholera epidemic in 1831
d) The Plague Commission report of 1904
6. Which committee was appointed to make a broad survey of health conditions in British India before
Independence?
a) Royal Commission b)Plague Commission c) Bhore Committee d) Consultative Board
of Health
7. According to the Bhore Committee, what should be the main focus of the health services?
a) Providing medical care to urban areas
b) Treating diseases in hospitals
c) Preventive health work
d) Providing free healthcare to all citizens
8. What was the significance of the Public Health Act of 1848 in England?
a) It established the first public hospitals.
b) It recognized the importance of sanitation and disease prevention.
c) It introduced mandatory vaccinations for all citizens.
d) It created the first medical licensing board.
9. What was the primary focus of early medical administration efforts in the Indo-Pakistan
subcontinent?
a) Prevention of diseases
b) Rehabilitation of the sick
c) Providing medical relief to refugees
d) Development of medical colleges
10. Which committee provided a report on health conditions in British India before the partition?
a) Royal Commission
b) Plague Commission
c) Bhore Committee
d) Consultative Board of Health
11. What was the observation of the Bhore Committee regarding environmental sanitation in Pakistan?
a) It was adequate in most parts of the country.
b) Malnutrition and under-nutrition were not significant issues.
c) Health services were sufficient to meet the needs of the people.
d) Environmental sanitation was at low levels in most parts of the country.
12. What was a significant task for health administrators in post-partition Pakistan?
a) Establishing medical colleges
b) Combatting epidemics
c) Providing social uplift schemes
d) Manufacturing vaccines and sera
13. What was the emphasis of the Government of Pakistan in 1958 regarding the treatment of diseases?
a) Providing more bed accommodation in hospitals
b) Establishing preventive medicine institutes
c) Training nurses in rural areas
d) Developing sanitation infrastructure
14. What institution was responsible for producing medical graduates specially trained in Public Health
and Preventive Medicine?
a) Punjab University
b) Karachi University
c) Fatima Jinnah Medical College
d) Institute of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine
15. Which disease eradication programs were organized by the Government of Pakistan with
international assistance?
a) Tuberculosis eradication
b) Polio eradication
c) Malaria eradication
d) Dengue eradication
16. What was the main emphasis of the Health Conferences held in 1947 and 1951 by the Government
of Pakistan?
a) Training medical personnel
b) Establishing medical colleges
c) Organizing social uplift schemes
d) Combating epidemics
17. How does the World Health Organization (WHO) define health?
a) Absence of illness
b) Complete physical well-being
c) State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
d) Ability to lead an economically productive life
18. What is the primary focus of Community Medicine?
a) Treatment of individual patients
b) Prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections
c) Application of technical knowledge and skills to deliver healthcare to a community
d) Study of genetics and biochemistry
19. What does Public Health primarily aim to achieve?
a) Treatment of diseases
b) Prolonging life through preventive measures
c) Providing healthcare to individuals
d) Promoting social well-being
20. What is Social Hygiene concerned with?
a) Prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections
b) Rehabilitation of patients with mental illnesses
c) Providing clean water supply to communities
d) Promoting healthy eating habits
21. What does Individual Health refer to?
a) State of equilibrium of the body and its functions
b) Well-being of a single individual within a community
c) Accessibility of healthcare services to individuals
d) Absence of disease in a person
22. What does Community Health focus on?
a) Treatment of individual patients
b) Providing healthcare to communities
c) Preventive measures for infectious diseases
d) Rehabilitation of patients with chronic illnesses
23. What are the components of a healthy community according to the text?
a) Clean water supply, adequate food, and satisfactory working conditions
b) Well-ventilated accommodation, optimal healthcare services, and wholesome water supply
c) Treatment facilities, sanitation, and good nutrition
d) Housing, excreta disposal, and education facilities
24. According to the text, what is emphasized in the curriculum revision for Lady Health Visitors and
Midwives?
a) Treatment of diseases
b) Maternal and child welfare aspects
c) Social uplift schemes
d) Primary healthcare skills
25. What is the infant mortality rate in Pakistan according to the State of World's Children-2000?
a) 95/1000 live births b) 136/1000 live births
c) 340/100,000 live births d) 8 per 1000 population
26. What is the leading cause of illness and death in children in Pakistan?
a) Malnutrition b) Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) c) Diarrhoea d) Low birth weight
27. What percentage of children under 5 years of age in Pakistan exhibit third degree protein-calorie
malnutrition?
a) 10% b) 13% c) 25% d) 51%
28. What is the percentage of low birth weight babies in Pakistan?
a) 10% b) 25% c) 48% d) 80.5%
29. Who is responsible for policy making in health matters in Pakistan?
(a) Ministry of Foreign Affairs b) Ministry of Health, Social Welfare, and Special Education
(c) Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (d) Ministry of Finance
30. Which province in Pakistan has the most urbanized population?
(a) Punjab (b) Sindh (c) Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (d) Baluchistan
31. What is the primary focus of MCH Centers in Pakistan?
(a) Providing tertiary care to patients (b) Treating major diseases
c) Providing health care to women of reproductive age and children under five years
(d) Providing care to elderly population
32. What is the purpose of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?
(a) To increase extreme poverty (b) To set global partnership targets to reduce poverty
(c) To prolong the deadline for achieving development goals (d) To ignore global health issues
33. Which organization adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration?
(a) World Bank (b) United Nations (c) World Health Organization
(d) International Monetary Fund
