Model question for .... COMMUNITY MEDICINE

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Section A: Long answer questions:
1. What do you mean by indicator? List different 10 types of indicators used in health and disease conditions with examples. What are the two commonly used morbidity indicators in public health? Explain.

2. What is analytical study? What do you know about case control and cohort study? Discuss and Differentiate case control and cohort study.


3. How would you carry out epidemiological investigation? Describe the different steps of epidemiological investigation.

4. Write problem，causative agent, risk factors, clinical findings, diagnostic approach, treatment categories and control and prevention of Tuberculosis.


5. What are the 5 different types of hepatitis virus? What are the names of diseases caused by each virus? State the modes of transmission, incubation period, and preventive measures of any two types of hepatitis.

6. What are the danger signs in ARI? Classify the ARI and state treatment accordingly.


7. Describe different treatment plan of diarrhoea according to different classification (treatment Plan A, B, C).

8. State the causative agent, risk factors (related to agent, host and environment), clinical features, modes of transmission, incubation period, control and preventive measures of bird flu (Avian Influenza).


9. State the causative agent, risk factors (related to agent, host and environment), clinical features, modes of transmission, incubation period, control and preventive measures of measles.

10……State the causative agent, risk factors (related to agent, host and environment), clinical features, modes of transmission, incubation period, control and preventive measures of poliomyelitis.


Section B: Short answer questions

1. Elements of primary health care
2. Types of surveillance
3. Primary prevention
4. Disease
5. Germ theory
6. Purpose of health education
7. Toxoid
8. Levels of health care
9. Sensitivity
10. Host
11. Criteria of disease screening
12. Pandemic
13. Concept of wellbeing
14. Classification of ARI
15. Composition of ORS-Citrate
16. Principles of PHC
17. Epidemiological triad
18. 10 principles of Health Education
19. specificity/sensitivity
20. Characteristics of screening test
21. Routes of disease transmission
22. Dynamics of disease transmission
23. Environment
24. Natural history of disease
25. 5 mortality indicators
26. Responsibility for health
27. Determinants of health
28. Spectrum of health
29. Dimensions of health
30. Levels of prevention
31. Hepatitis B vaccines (active)
32. Epidemiological approach
33. Difference between odds and risk ratios
34. Procedure of descriptive study
35. Difference between case control and cohort study