33 - AIIMS community medicine mcqs or social and preventive medicine mcqs ( spm or psm ) from all previous years AIIMS papers with answers - part 23

111q: giving benzathine pencillin in RHD is a type of

a. primary prevention
b. secondary prevention
c. tertiary prevention
d. primordial prevention

answer b. secondary prevention .

112q: dracunculosis is most common in ?

a. Gujarat
b. Rajasthan
c. Madhya Pradesh
d. Orissa

answer b . rajasthan .

113q: denominator in birth rate is

a. mid year population
b. total number of deaths
c. woman of child bearing age group
d. total number of eligible couples

answer a . mid year population .

114q: residual chlorine is detected by ?

a. horrock’s test
b. orthotoluidene test
c. chromatography
d. polarimeter

answer b. orthotoluidene test .

115q: varibles are arranged in ascending or descending order to determine ?

a. mean
b. median
c. mode
d. range

answer b . median .

7 - AIIMS november 2002 community medicine mcqs - part 1

1q: the drug of choice for chemoprophylaxis in contacts of a patient of pneumonic plague is ?

a. pencillin
b. rifampicin
c. erythromycin
d. tetracycline

answer d. tetracycline

2q: the national population policy 2001 aims to achieve net reproduction rate of 1 by the year ?

a. 2005
b. 2010
c. 2015
d. 2050

answer b. 2010

3q: if a biochemical test gives the same reading for a sample on repeated testing, it is inferred that the measurement is ?

a. precise
b. accurate
c. specific
d. sensitive

answer a. precise

4q: the commonest cause of maternal mortality in India is ?

a. anemia
b. hemorrhage
c. abortion
d. sepsis

answer b. hemorrhage

5q: all of the following statements about rheumatic fever / heart disease epidemiology in India are true except :

a. its prevalence varies between 2 to 11 per 1000 children aged 5-16 years
b. mitral regurgitation is the commonest cardiac lesion seen
c. it occurs equally in females and males
d. rheumatic fever occurs in about 2% of streptococcal sore throats

answer b. mitral regurgitation is the commonest cardiac lesion seen