Prevmed Pearls

Question 1

Main objective of solid waste processing

Answer 1

To recover whatever may be usable

Question 2

Most impt public health issue addressed by correct waste management

Answer 2

Composting of solid waste from laboratories

Question 3

Characteristic of rinary health care that separates it from traditional health delivery system

Answer 3

Community participation in all stages of planning

Question 4

Process of isolating patients with flu called

Answer 4

Specific protection

Question 5

What is increase in life expectancy mainly due to?

Answer 5

Dec in mortality rate in the younger age groups

Question 6

Primary objective of health educ

Answer 6

Improve health practices

Question 7

Ocular lesion due to long standing vit A deficiency

Answer 7

Bitot’s spots

Question 8

What is the most common CV disease that affects Filipinos

Answer 8

IHD

Question 9

Pattern of disease occurence in the community where the greater proportion of cases are subclinical

Answer 9

Iceberg phenomenon

Question 10

Passive immunity lasts for

Answer 10

6 mos

Question 11

Most impt aspect of health promotion among adolescents

Answer 11

Health education

Question 12

Median urinary iodine level that indicates mild IDD

Answer 12

50-99 ug/L

Question 13

Upper limit of daily vit A intake of pregnant women

Answer 13

10,000 iu/day

Question 14

Treatment if coluform count from a well is 35/100 cc

Answer 14

Standard treatment

Question 15

Best preservation method on milk

Answer 15

Sterilization

Question 16

Most dangerous method of excreta disposal in contaminating ground water

Answer 16

Bored hole latrine

Question 17

What does formation of sticky precipitates of soap with water indicative of water’s property?

Answer 17

Hard

Question 18

Metal on drinking water assoc with alzheimers

Answer 18

Aluminum

Question 19

Dissolved gas and odors in water are removed

Answer 19

Aeration

Question 20

Recommended refuse disposal method for the hospital

Answer 20

Incineration

Question 21

When should blood pressure monitoring be done for normotensive and asymptomatic elderly

Answer 21

Once a month

Question 22

Primary reason for the inclusion of glucose in orl rehydration solution

Answer 22

Help in the absorption of sodium

Question 23

What is the hardness of water primatily due to

Answer 23

Calcium and magnesium

Question 24

When is excreta disposal considered to be sanitary?

Answer 24

There is no soil and water contamination

Question 25

Most practical and sanitary way to excrete disposal in the rural areas

Answer 25

Water-sealed toilet

Question 26

Most commonly used vector control method

Answer 26

Chemical pesticide

Question 27

Most critical step in waste reduction and recycling

Answer 27

Waste segregation

Question 28

Duration of productive cough in chronic bronchitis

Answer 28

At least 3 mos of the year for more than 2 consecutive years

Question 29

When should newborn screening be done?

Answer 29

24 hours after birth not more than 3 days

Question 30

Amount of chopped fresh leaves of lagundi for adults

Answer 30

Six tbsp

Question 31

For whom are Ampalaya leaves recommended

Answer 31

Non insulin dependent DM adults

Question 32

Which medicinal plant contains vinca alkaloids

Answer 32

Rosas de baybayon

Question 33

How should garlic NOT be used to lower cholesterol

Answer 33

Raw

Question 34

Define health promotion

Answer 34

Process of enabling people to increase control over or to improve on their health. It moves beyond a focus of individual behavior towards a wide range of social or environmental interventions.

Question 35

Vaccine that should be placed in contact with frozen icepacks

Answer 35

OPV

Question 36

Vaccine most easily damaged by sunlight

Answer 36

BCG

Question 37

State, period or place of isolation in which people or animals that have artived from elsewhere or been exposed to inctious or dontagious disease are placed

Answer 37

Quarantine

Question 38

Done to prevent transmission of highly contagious materiak spread by air or droplet

Answer 38

Strict isolation

Question 39

Internationally quarantinable diseases

Answer 39

Plague cholera smllpox

Question 40

How long should shellfish be harvested from a contaminated area be purged before consumption

Answer 40

2 weeks

Question 41

Neurotoxin found in coal

Answer 41

Manganese

Question 42

Bacterial limits for pasteurized milk and other products

Answer 42

20,000/ml

Question 43

General fertility rate is computed as

Answer 43

Number of live births in 1 year divided by number of women 15-44 yrs old

Question 44

Rate used as an indicator of an outbreak or an epidemic

Answer 44

Incidence rate

Question 45

First step in an epidemiologic outbreak investigation

Answer 45

Formulate the hypothesis

Question 46

Type of outbreak where exposure is bried and all cases develop within one incubation period of the disease

Answer 46

Point outbreak

Question 47

When shoudl registration of death be done before

Answer 47

48hrs after death