Public Health Governance MCQ — 85 Practice Questions with Answers

Q1. Consider the following statements: 1. The Clinical Establishments Act provides for registration and regulation of clinical establishments. 2. The Act links minimum standards of facilities and services with the constitutional mandate of Article 47. 3. The Act applied in the first instance to all States of India without any adoption mechanism. 4. The State Council for clinical establishments has the Secretary, Health as ex officio Chairman. Which of the statements given above are correct?

Q2. Consider the following statements: 1. The National Exit Test under the National Medical Commission Act is a common final-year undergraduate medical examination for granting licence to practise medicine and enrolment in the State or National Register. 2. A person with a foreign medical qualification must qualify the National Exit Test to obtain licence to practise medicine and for enrolment in the State or National Register. 3. The National Register maintained under the National Medical Commission Act is expressly excluded from the category of public documents. 4. The Act prohibits electronic synchronisation between the National Register and State Registers. Which of the statements given above are correct?

Q3. Consider the following statements: 1. Under the Epidemic Diseases Act, the State Government may prescribe temporary regulations to prevent the outbreak or spread of a dangerous epidemic disease. 2. Section 2 of the Epidemic Diseases Act gives this power only to Parliament, not to the State Government. 3. The Act permits inspection of persons travelling by railway or otherwise and segregation of suspected infected persons. Which of the statements given above are correct?

Q4. Consider the following statements: 1. NHM's financing components include the NRHM-RCH Flexipool. 2. NHM's financing components include the NUHM Flexipool. 3. Infrastructure Maintenance is excluded from NHM financing components. Which of the statements given above are correct?

Q5. Consider the following statements: 1. Public health and sanitation; hospitals and dispensaries are placed in the State List. 2. Port quarantine, including hospitals connected with it, is placed in the Union List. 3. Prevention of the extension of infectious or contagious diseases from one State to another is placed in the State List. 4. Drugs and poisons are placed in the Concurrent List, subject to the Union List entry on opium. Which of the statements given above are correct?