MID TERM TEST
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE & PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES
Time for BCQ 20 minutes
Time for SEQ 15 minutes
Q1 Occurrence of a number of cases of disease in the community that is
unusually large or unexpected
a) Endemic
b) Epidemic
c) Pandemic
d) Infection
Q2 Which infection transmitted from one patient to another, or from a
member of staff, or from the environment, to another patient.
a) Direct infection
b) Indirect infection
c) Cross infection
d) Disinfection
Q3: Health definition is
a) Health is state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and
not merely absence of the diseases or infirmity.
b) It means adequate body weight, height and circumference as per age
and sex with acceptable level of vision, hearing, locomotion or
movements.
c) Health is the state of complete physical mental wellbeing and with
diseases
d) Health is the state of emotional wellbeing
Q4: Vitamin D deficiency cause
a) Rickets
b) Blindness
c) Blood clotting
d) Scurvy
Q5: The study which proceeds from cause to effect
a) Retrospective
b) Cohort
c) Case control
d) Descriptive
Q6: when disease spread from one country to another country in a short
time is called
a) Endemic
b) Epidemic
c) Sporadic
d) Pandemic
Q7: which one of the following is NOT a modifiable risk factor for
coronary heart diseases?
a) High blood pressure
b) Sedentary habits
c) Diabetes
d) Age
Q8: One of the recommended procedure for house hold purification of
water is
a) Boiling under pressure
b) Boiling for half an hour
c) Boiling for 5-10 minutes
d) Boiling for 1 minute
Q9: An epidemiologist wants to study the natural course of disease as it
evolves without an intervention, is knows as
a) Spectrum of disease
b) Natural history of disease
c) Epidemiology disease
d) Surveillance disease
Q10: Definition of epidemiology is
a) The STUDY of the DISTRIBUTION and DETERMINANTS of
HEALTH-RELATED STATES in specified POPULATIONS, and the
application of this study to CONTROL of health problems."
b) The STUDY of the DETERMINANTS of HEALTH in all
POPULATIONS, and the application of this study to CONTROL
c) The STUDY of the DISTRIBUTION of disease and study to
problems.
d) The STUDY of the HEALTH-RELATED diseases in specified
POPULATIONS, and the application of this study to CONTROL of
health problems."
Q11: The long-time trend of disease occurrence
a) Secular trend
b) Periodic trend
c) Seasonal trend
d) Epidemic
Q12: Infection spread through lack of water for personal hygiene’ E coli
or salmonella
a) Water washed disease
b) Water based disease
c) Water born disease
d) Water vector disease
Q13: The natural history of disease can be divided into two stages which
are
a) Physiological
b) Pathological
c) Pre pathogenesis and post pathogeneses
d) Epidemiological
Q14: which type of diabetes usually occurs in adulthood
a) Type one
b) Type two
c) Type one and two
d) All are above
Q15: A doctor advised physiotherapy to a child who has flaccid
paralysis of lower limb due to poliomyelitis in past. This advice is
known as
a) Primordial prevention
b) Primary prevention
c) Secondary prevention
d) Tertiary prevention
SEQ
Q1 write down short note
a) Natural history of disease
b) Water born disease and its prevention
Q2 Differentiate between case control study and cohort study
