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Social and Preventive Medicine: Write Short Notes On

This document contains the questions from the final exam on Social and Preventive Medicine from the National Board of Examinations given in December 2017. It includes 10 questions, each worth 10 marks, on topics related to primary health care, levels of prevention, disability limitation, human development index, years of potential life lost, incidence vs prevalence, bimodality, measles transmission and prevention, influenza antigenic shift vs drift, meningococcal meningitis epidemiology, hepatitis types and transmission, HIV clinical staging in children, and HIV post-exposure prophylaxis. The exam instructs students to answer all questions in order in the allotted 3 hours and provides formatting guidelines for the responses.

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Social and Preventive Medicine: Write Short Notes On

This document contains the questions from the final exam on Social and Preventive Medicine from the National Board of Examinations given in December 2017. It includes 10 questions, each worth 10 marks, on topics related to primary health care, levels of prevention, disability limitation, human development index, years of potential life lost, incidence vs prevalence, bimodality, measles transmission and prevention, influenza antigenic shift vs drift, meningococcal meningitis epidemiology, hepatitis types and transmission, HIV clinical staging in children, and HIV post-exposure prophylaxis. The exam instructs students to answer all questions in order in the allotted 3 hours and provides formatting guidelines for the responses.

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FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2017

SOCIAL AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE


PAPER – I
SPM/D/17/45/I
Time: 3 hours
Max. Marks: 100
• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
• Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space
• Answer all the parts of a single question together.
• Start the question to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.

Write short notes on:

1. a) Define “Primary health care”? 2+4+4


b) Levels of prevention with examples?
c) What is ‘Disability limitation’? Illustrate with suitable
examples.

2. a) Define Human Development Index (HDI). 2+8


b) Outline the steps to estimate HDI.

3. a) Define Years of Potential Life Lost. 2+4+4


b) Enumerate healthcare delivery indicators.
c) Enumerate health policy indicators.

4. a) Define ‘Incidence’ and ‘Prevalence’. What is the 5+2+3


relationship between ‘Prevalence’ and ‘Incidence?’
b) Uses of Prevalence
c) Special incidence rates

5. a) What is ‘Bimodality’? Give an example. (2+2)+6


b) Differentiate between observational and intervention
studies with illustrative examples.

6. a) Communicability in measles 2+2+6


b) Complications of measles
c) Measures for prevention and control of measles.

7. a) Differentiate between antigenic shift and drift. 2+3+5


b) Contraindications of inactivated vaccines.
c) Antiviral therapy in pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009

8. a) Epidemiology of meningococcal meningitis. 2+8


b) Submit a plan for investigation and control of an
outbreak of meningitis in the district jail.

P.T.O

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FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2017

9. a) Differentiate between various types of viral Hepatitis as 5+5


per agent factors and mode of transmission.
b) Would you advocate introducing Hepatitis A vaccine in
the National programme? Substantiate with reasons.

10. a) WHO clinical staging system for HIV infection in 4+6


children.
b) Post exposure prophylaxis for HIV (WHO 2016)

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