U1.4 - Intro to Para (Treatment, Prevention and Control)

Question 1

Use of anthelminthic drugs in an individual or public health program

Answer 1

deworming

Question 2

Number of previously positive subjects found to be egg negative

Answer 2

cure rate

Question 3

Percentage fall in egg counts after deworming

Answer 3

egg reduction rate

Question 4

Individual-level deworming

Answer 4

selective treatment

Question 5

Selection for treatment based on presumptive grounds

Answer 5

selective treatment

Question 6

Used in whole populations or defined risk groups

Answer 6

selective treatment

Question 7

Group-level deworming

Answer 7

targeted treatment

Question 8

Risk group to be treated may be defined by age, sex, etc

Answer 8

targeted treatment

Question 9

Population-level deworming

Answer 9

universal treatment

Question 10

Community is treated irrespective of age, sex, infection status, etc.

Answer 10

universal treatment

Question 11

Regular, systematic, large-scale intervention through administration of
one or more drugs to selected
population groups

Answer 11

preventive chemotherapy

Question 12

Proportion of target population reached by the intervention

Answer 12

coverage

Question 13

Effect of a drug

Answer 13

efficacy

Question 14

Measure of the effect of a drug

Answer 14

effectiveness

Question 15

Genetically transmitted loss of susceptibility to a drug

Answer 15

drug resistance

Question 16

Avoidance of illness caused by
infections

Answer 16

morbidity control

Question 17

Health education strategy

Answer 17

Information-education-communication (IEC)

Question 18

Aims to encourage people to adapt and maintain healthy life practices

Answer 18

Information-education-communication (IEC)

Question 19

Planning, organization, performance, and monitoring of activities for medication or manipulation of environmental factors

Answer 19

environmental management

Question 20

Done to prevent or minimize vector or intermediate host propagation

Answer 20

environmental management

Question 21

Also done to reduce contact between humans and infective agent

Answer 21

environmental management

Question 22

intervention to reduce environmental health risks

Answer 22

environmental sanitation

Question 23

includes safe disposal and hygienic management of human and animal excreta, refuse, and waste water

Answer 23

environmental sanitation

Question 24

Provision of access to adequate facilities for safe disposal of human excreta

Answer 24

sanitation