Concepts of Disease and Prevention MCQs

Ans. is 'b' i.e., Early stage of disease Primordial prevention → Before risk factor present. Primary prevention → Before onset of disease (risk factor present). Secondary prevention → In early stage of disease. Tertiary prevention → Late stage of disease.

Highly sensitive test, when negative, rules out a disease. Reference: Park’s Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 25 th Edition, pg- 153

Correct answer is Option A Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis.

BEINGS MODEL consists of the following 9 components B→ B iological factors B→ B ehavioural E→ E nvironmental factors I→ I mmunological factors N→ N utritional factors G→ G enetic factors S→ S ocial factors S→ S ervices factors S→ S piritual factors Reference: Park's Preventive and social medicine, 27th edition, Chapter Principles of Epidemiology & Epidemiology methods.

Ans. is 'a' i.e., 1000 Local dais (Traditional birth attendants) Under Rural Health Scheme, all categories of local dies are trained to improve their knowledge in the elementry concepts of : - i) MCH ii) Sterilization (Small family norm) Training Training is for 30 working days. o They are paid a stipend o/ Rs. 300 during training period. o Training is given for 2 days in a week at PHC, subcentre or MHC centre. o On the remaining four days of the week they accompany the health worker female. o During her training period each dai is required to conduct at least 2 deliveries under the supervision of health worker. The national target is to train one local dai in each village. Note : One village is equivalent to 1000 rural population.