PSM 7 Flashcards
Restriction of activities of a contact, who has been exposed to a case of communicable disease for maximum incubation period, is termed as:
Quarantine
The required temperature for sterilization against spores in Hot-air oven is:
160-1800C for one hour
“Dettol” is a commonly used antiseptic agent in the community. Its chemical name is:
Chloroxylenol
The strength of association between the cause and the disease
Incidence rate
Killing power of a disease is best expressed by
Case fatality rate
In incidence rate of disease between exposed group and non-exposed group is
Attributable risk
Koplik’s spots are the diagnostic sign of one of the following diseases
Measles
The best strategy recommended by WHO for the control of pulmonary Tuberculosis is
Early case detection and prompt treatment
Disease spread by infected droplets
a. Chicken pox
b. Measles
c. Mumps
d. Rubella
diseases have a human healthy carrier
a. Cholera
b. Diphtheria
c. Salmonellosis
d. HIV
a cell derived vaccine
Hepatitis B
most reliable indicator of fertility in a country
Total fertility rate
Net reproduction rate
The number of daughters a new born girl will bear during her life time assuming fixed age specific fertility and mortality rate
a meat borne disease
Taeniasis.
One important clinical sign of Kwashiorkor type of malnutrition is
Oedema
A Post coital contraception is recommended within
48 hours of unprotected- intercourse
arrangements of desks & chairs is recommended for school children
Minus type
The Routine Medical Inspection of school children during school career should at least be:
Four times in the total schooling period
The presence of nitrates in water indicates:
Past faecal pollution
Mottling of teeth is a nutrition related condition which results from
Excess of Fluorine in drinking water
The sloughed off layer in the trickling filter during the treatment of sewage in modern plants is known as:
Humus
daily upper limit of noise without substantial damage to hearing
85 db
insecticide which is the least toxic organo-chlorine compound for human beings
DDT
Asexual cycle of malarial parasite ends with the production of ………… to propagate the disease?
Gametocytes
