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Multiple Choice Questions

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AGENCIES 8. WHO formation day is: [Recent Question 2013]
(a) 5 May
1. Which of the following statements is incorrect about (b) 7 April
WHO? [AIPGME 1999] (c) 10 June
(a) Objective of WHO is attainment by all people of the (d) 10 July
highest level of health
(b) Headquarters of WHO are located in Geneva Review Questions
(c) WHO is a non-specialized, political agency of United
Nations
(d) World Health Assembly is the ‘Health Parliament’

9. UNICEF provides all except: [UP 2000]
(a) Child nutrition
and supreme governing body of the organization (b) Child health education
2. Match the following health agencies and the location of (c) Immunization
(d) Family planning
their headquarters:

Health agencyHeadquarters
10. World bank gives loans for: [UP 2005]
A. WHO I – Rome, Italy (a) For economic growth
B. UNICEF–II – New York, USA (b) Cobalt therapy of radiotherapy department
C. FAO III – Geneva, Switzerland (c) Purchase of microscope for tuberculosis investigation
(a) A – I, B – II, C – III [AIIMS Nov 1999] (d) To change of the social justice
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(b) A – III, B – II, C – I

(c) A – III, B – I, C – II
11. All of the following activities of Junior Red Cross
(d) A – I, B – III, C – II except: [UP 2007]
(a) Military hospital worker
3. WHO was established in: [AIIMS Dec 95] (b) Village uplift
(a) 1945 (c) Prevent epidemic work
(b) 1948 (d) Any of the above
(c) 1950
(d) 1956
12. Headquarters of UNICEF is at: [MH 2000]
(a) Geneva
4. International Red Cross is based in: [AIIMS Dec 97] (b) New york
(a) Geneva (c) Rome
(b) New York (d) New Delhi
(c) New Delhi
(d) Rome
13. UNDP works as: [MH 2006) (MH 2006]
5. In UNICEF’s GOBI Campaign, ‘O’ stands for:
(a) The main source of funds for technical assistance
(b) The main source of funds for child health
(a) Oral Contraceptives [DPG 2006]
(c) The Source of funds for research and development
(b) Oral Rehydration Therapy
(d) Education source for developing countries
(c) Obesity
(d) Occupational hazards
14. All of the following organization have their head
6. Members of southeast Asia of WHO are: quarter at Geneva except: [MH 2006]
(a) Japan [PGI June 01] (a) UNICEF
(b) Afghanistan (b) WHO
(c) India (c) ILO
(d) Pakistan (d) None
(e) Srilanka 15. All of the following organizations have their head
7. Highest funding for reproductive health is by: quarter at Geneva except: [MH 2006] [(MH 2008]
(a) UNFPA [Recent Question 2013] (a) UNICEF
(b) UNICEF (b) WHO
(c) ILO (c) ILO
(d) WHO (d) International red cross

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16. Head quarter of WHO is at: [RJ 2000] 25. Only certificate of vaccination required for internation-
(a) New York al travel is: [Karnataka 2009]
(b) Geneva (a) Hepatitis B
(c) London (b) BCG
(d) New Delhi (c) Tetanus
(d) Yellow fever
17. All disease are included in internationally notifiable
disease except: [RJ 2004] 26. Contribution of Germany to pubic health:
(a) Plague (a) Germ theory [PGI June 05]
(b) Cholera (b) Pasteurization
(c) Yellow fever (c) Quarantine ship
(d) TB (d) Social medicine
(e) Compulsory sickness benefit
MISCELLANEOUS 27. All of the following are most important and potential
agents which can be used for Bio-terrorism except:
18. Diseases under International Surveillance includes all (a) Smallpox [AIIMS Dec 97]
except: [AIPGME 1991,1992] (b) Plague
(a) Louse borne typhus fever [AIIMS May 1991] (c) Botulism
(b) Relapsing fever [Recent Question 2013] (d) Tuberculosis
(c) Paralytic polio 28. Which of the following is not true about World Health
(d) Yellow fever Report 2008? [AIPGME 2011]
19. Tropical diseases targeted for research and training by (a) Service delivery reforms
WHO include all except: [JIPMER 2008] (b) Leadership reforms
(a) Trypanosomiasis (c) Public Policy reforms
(b) Filariasis (d) Economic reforms
(c) Schistosomiasis 29. For studying the complete amino acid sequence of two

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(d) Onchocerciasis polypeptide chains of Insulin, Nobel Prize was award-
ed to: [AIIMS November 2011]
20. Finger Print Bureau was first established in:
(a) Fredreich Sanger
(a) England [AIPGME 06]
(b) Banting and Macleod
(b) China (c) Paul Muller
(c) India (d) Alexander Fleming
(d) Singapore
21. Emporiatrics refers to study of: 30. Who among the following has/have received Nobel
Prize? 
[AIIMS May 95]
[PGI November 2012]
(a) Occupational disease
(a) Louis Pasteur
(b) Air pollution
(b) Taum and Lederberg
(c) Environmental factor (c) Ronald Ross
(d) Health of travelers (d) Kary Mullis
22. Quarantine was originally introduced as a protection (e) Leeuwenhoek
against: [AIIMS June 1997] 31. Bioterrorism group-A agent is?
(a) Plague (a) Q fever [Recent Question 2012, 2013]
(b) Tuberculosis (b) Typhus fever
(c) AIDS (c) Anthrax
(d) Malaria (d) Brucellosis
23. Disease excluded and re-included from International 32. Maximum damage to Napoleon’s army during his
Health Regulations till date is: march to Moscow was done by: [DNB June 2010]
(a) Smallpox [AIPGME 2006] (a) Typhus
(b) Guinea worm (b) Plague
(c) Typhoid (c) Diarrhea
(d) HIV/AIDS (d) Typhoid
24. World Health Day is observed every year on: 33. Emporiatrics deals with the health of: [DNB 2008]
(a) January 11 [AIIMS Dec 92] (a) Farmers
(b) April 7 [Recent Question 2013] (b) Travellers
(c) June 5 (c) Industrial workers
(d) December 1 (d) Mine workers
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34. World anti-tobacco day is celebrated on: (b) Travellers

(a) 31st may [Recent Question 2012] (c) Industrial workers
(b) 5th June (d) Mine workers
(c) 12th July
(d) 24th November
40. Study of disease in a traveller from one part to another:
(a) Eugenics [UP 2003]
35. According to International Health regulation (IHR) (b) Ergonomics
Act, a pregnant woman, with the following duration of (c) Emporiatrics
pregnancy (in weeks), can’t travel by air to other coun- (d) None
try: [DNB 2007]
41. International Notification is must in the following
(a) 20
(b) 28 except: [TN 2003]
(c) 32 (a) Cholera
(d) 36 (b) Plague
(c) Yellow fever
(d) Paralytic polio
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42. Certificate for vaccination during international travel is
36. Yellow fever vaccination starts protection after how required in case of: [MP 2003]
many days of injection: [DNB 2006] (a) Japanese Encephalitis
(a) 5 days
(b) Yellow fever
(b) 10 days
(c) Cholera
(c) 15 days
(d) Yellow severe and Cholera
(d) 20 days
37. Rabies free country is: [DNB 2006]
43. Quarantine is required for: [MP 2003]
(a) Yellow fever
(a) China
(b) Cholera
(b) Russia
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(c) Plague
(c) Australia
(d) France (d) All the above

38. According to international Health Regulation (IHR) 44. World Health Day of WHO is on:
(a) 7 April
[RJ 2000]
Act, a pregnant woman, with the following duration
of pregnancy (in weeks), cannot travel by air to other (b) 10 April
country? [DNB 2007] (c) 11 April
(d) 15 April
(a) 20
(b) 28
(c) 32
45. AIDS day is on: [RJ 2005]
(a) 7 may
(d) 36 (b) 1 December
39. Emporiatrics deals with the health of ? (c)
(d)
20 November
None
(a) Farmers [DNB 2008]

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