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Public Health MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
Solve 90 Public Health questions for RAS/RPSC preparation.
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Q1Consider the following statements: 1. Janani Suraksha Yojana is a safe motherhood intervention under the National Health Mission. 2. Janani Suraksha Yojana aims only at reducing neonatal mortality and has no maternal-health objective. 3. Janani Suraksha Yojana integrates cash assistance with delivery and post-delivery care. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1 and 3 are correct. Statement 2 is incorrect because NHM says JSY is implemented with the objective of reducing both maternal and neonatal mortality by promoting institutional delivery.
Q2Consider the following statements: 1. IDSP was launched in November 2004 by the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare. 2. Under IDSP, only Central and State Surveillance Units were established; District Surveillance Units were not part of the structure. 3. IDSP aims to strengthen a decentralized, laboratory-based, IT-enabled surveillance system for epidemic-prone diseases. 4. IDSP was extended up to March 2012, but it did not continue under NHM in the 12th Plan. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1 and 3 are correct. Statement 2 is incorrect because IDSP established Central, State and District Surveillance Units. Statement 4 is incorrect because the project continued in the 12th Plan as Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme under NHM.
Q3Consider the following statements: 1. The Government of India implemented NPCDCS in all States to prevent and control major non-communicable diseases. 2. Population-based screening under this initiative targets persons more than 30 years of age. 3. The common NCDs screened under the initiative are diabetes, hypertension, oral cancer, lung cancer and prostate cancer. 4. For activities up to district level and below under NPCDCS, States receive financial support under NHM. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1, 2 and 4 are correct. Statement 3 is incorrect because the listed cancer screening package is oral, breast and cervical cancer, not lung and prostate cancer.
Q4Consider the following statements: 1. In 2020, RNTCP was renamed as the National TB Elimination Program to emphasize India's aim to eliminate TB by 2025. 2. The National Strategic Plan 2017-2025 implements NTEP activities under four strategic pillars: Detect, Treat, Prevent and Build. 3. The SDG targets for TB use 2020 as the baseline year. 4. One SDG target for TB is that zero TB patients and their households face catastrophic costs as a result of TB disease. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1, 2 and 4 are correct. Statement 3 is incorrect because the TB SDG targets cited by the official NTEP page use baseline 2015, not 2020.
Q5Consider the following statements: 1. NHP 2017 set a target to reduce under-five mortality to 23 by 2025. 2. It targeted reducing infant mortality rate to 28 by 2025. 3. It targeted achieving and maintaining elimination status of kala-azar by 2017. 4. It targeted reducing blindness prevalence to 0.25 per 1000 by 2020. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1 and 3 are correct. Statement 2 is incorrect because the target year for infant mortality rate of 28 was 2019, not 2025. Statement 4 is incorrect because the blindness prevalence target of 0.25 per 1000 was for 2025, not 2020.
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6Consider the following statements: 1. The National Health Policy, 2017 set a target to increase life expectancy at birth from 67.5 to 70 by 2025. 2. The National Health Policy, 2017 set a target to reduce total fertility rate to 2.1 at national and sub-national level by 2025. 3. The National Health Policy, 2017 set a target to raise government health expenditure to 5% of GDP by 2025. 4. The National Health Policy, 2017 set a target to increase State sector health spending to more than 18% of State budgets by 2020. Which of the statements given above are correct?
7Consider the following statements: 1. Hepatitis B is a viral infection that attacks the liver. 2. Hepatitis B can be prevented by vaccines that are safe, available and effective. 3. Hepatitis B is transmitted only by mosquito bites. Which of the statements given above are correct?
8With reference to the National Health Policy, 2017 targets, consider the following statements: 1. It aims to increase life expectancy at birth from 67.5 to 70 by 2025. 2. It aims to reduce TFR to 2.1 at national and sub-national level by 2025. 3. It aims that more than 80% of newborns are fully immunized by one year of age by 2025. Which of the statements given above are correct?
9Consider the following statements: 1. About 1.5 billion people are estimated to be living with chronic liver disease. 2. MASLD is the new term for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. 3. MASLD affects only about one-tenth of the global adult population. Which of the statements given above are correct?
10Consider the following statements: 1. The May 2015 World Health Assembly adopted a global action plan on antimicrobial resistance. 2. The global action plan on antimicrobial resistance outlines five objectives. 3. The action plan treats antimicrobial use in animal health as outside its scope. 4. One Health links humans, animals and the environment across disease control from prevention to response and management. Which of the statements given above are correct?
11Consider the following statements: 1. Measles is a bacterial water-borne disease. 2. Measles infects the respiratory tract and then spreads throughout the body. 3. Vaccination is the best way to prevent getting sick with measles or spreading it to others. Which of the statements given above are correct?
12Consider the following statements: 1. IHR (2005) is legally binding on 196 countries, including the 194 WHO Member States. 2. IHR defines rights and obligations for managing public health risks, events and emergencies that may cross borders. 3. Under IHR, implementation responsibility rests only on WHO, not on States Parties. 4. IHR aims to avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade while responding to international disease spread. Which of the statements given above are correct?
13Consider the following statements: 1. Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. 2. Leprosy predominantly affects the skin and peripheral nerves. 3. Leprosy is incurable even with multidrug therapy. Which of the statements given above are correct?
14With reference to child and adolescent public health programmes in India, consider the following statements: 1. RBSK screens children from birth to 18 years of age for four Ds. 2. The four Ds under RBSK are defects at birth, diseases, deficiencies and developmental delays. 3. RBSK covers only 12 common health conditions. 4. RKSK was launched on 7 January 2014 to reach 253 million adolescents. Which of the statements given above are correct?
15Consider the following statements: 1. AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to antimicrobial medicines. 2. Misuse and overuse of antimicrobials in humans, animals and plants are major drivers of drug-resistant pathogens. 3. AMR is caused only by bacteria and does not involve viruses, fungi or parasites. Which of the statements given above are correct?