31 - AIIMS community medicine mcqs or social and preventive medicine mcqs ( spm or psm ) from all previous years AIIMS papers with answers - part 21

101q: time interval between inoculation of infection to maximum infectivity is ?

a. lead time
b. median incubation period
c. generation time
d. serial interval

answer c . generation time .

102q: family size is ?

a. total number of family members in the family
b. total number of female children born in the family
c. total number of children in the family
d. total number of female children in the family considering the mortality

answer c. total number of children in the family .

103q: which is not a goal for health for all by 2000 AD ?

a. crude birth rate – 21
b. NRR -1
c. Complete family size – 4
d. CPR – 60

answer g . the goal is 2. 3 .

104q: all are true regarding common source epidemic except ?

a. sudden onset
b. all the people are affected at the same time
c. more commonly seen in children
d. abrupt end

answer c. more commonly seen in children .

105q: recording the data of births and deaths in a community continuosly after 6 months survey is known as ?

a. sample registration system
b. data linkage
c. hospital records
d. notificatioin system

answer a . sample registration system .d. water bottle heart

14 - AIIMS community medicine mcqs or social and preventive medicine mcqs ( spm or psm ) from all previous years AIIMS papers with answers - part 4

16q: life expectancy as per 1991 census is ?

answer male : 58.1 and female : 59.1

17q: life expectancy as per 2001 census is ?

answer male : 62.8 and female : 64 .

18q: regarding propogated epidemic all are true except ?

a. herd immunity plays an important role in spread
b. person to person transmission takes place
c. high secondary attack rate
d. no secondary peaks

answer d . no secondary peaks . there are secondary peaks associated with propogated epidemic .

19q: the vector of japanese encephalitis in India is ?

answer culex tritaeniorhyneus .

20q: in a case controlled study , it is found that the disease is more common in the group taking coffee as compared to the control group . the significance of this is ?

a. cause and effect relationship established
b. disease median can be calculated
c. caffeine is associated with occurrence of disease
d. control will not get the disease

answer c. caffeine is associated with occurrence of disease