Addis Continental Institute of Public Health

AND
University of Gondar

Entrance examination for post graduate program

Instruction: choice the best answer

1.      What does null hypothesis mean

a.     There no difference
b.     There is difference
c.     None
2.      The first census in Ethiopia was done in______________
a.     1996
b.     1984
c.     1975
d.     1998
3.      The point prevalence of HIV in Ethiopia is ____________
a.     2.1
b.     4.6
c.     .28
d.     None
4.      TT vaccination of  a pregnant mother is mainly for the health of
_______________
a.     For mother
b.     New born
c.     For both
d.     none
5.      Maternal mortality of Ethiopia is closed to _____________
a.     200
b.     300
c.     800
d.     1200
6.      The life expectancy at birth of Ethiopia is close to _______________
a.     30
b.     40
c.     50
d.     none
7.       What does error type one mean

8.      Which of the following is statically significant at error type one of

0.05
a.     0.09
b.     0.08
c.     0.01
d.     0.06
9.      Which one of the following disease  is on eradication in the world
a.     Polio
b.     Measles
c.     Tetanus
d.     None

10.  Which of the following disease is eradicated from Ethiopia

a.     Polio
b.     Leprosy
c.     Measles
d.     Malaria
e.     none
11.  Good outcome indicator  of TB control program
a.     Case detection rate
b.     Cure rate
c.     Defaulter rate
d.     none
12.  The most successful public health activity in the twenty first century
a.     Vaccination
b.     Environmental sanitation
c.     Family planning
d.     all
13.  Which of the following central tendency  measure is most affected by
both extreme values
a.     Arithmetic  mean
b.     Range
c.     Mode
d.      median
14.  Age in years is _______________ type of variable
 a.     Ratio
b.     Interval
c.     Ordinal
d.     nominal
15.  The most appropriate type of graph to present categorical data is
a.     Histogram
b.     Bar graph
c.     Line graph
d.     Spot map
16.  What is the difference between surveillance and survey

17.  How many diseases are targeted by EPI in 1990

a.     Six
b.     Seven
c.     Eight
d.     Five

18.  Which of the following is sign of chronic malnutrition

a.     Wasting
b.     Stunting
c.     KW
d.     none
19.  Target of primary prevention includes all except
a.     Individual
b.     High risk group
c.     Population
d.     Diseased person
20.  Which of the following is not the advantage of public health
a.     Treatment of all people
b.     Health promotion
c.     Health education
d.     None
21.  The health sector development program (HSDP)currently Ethiopia
implementing
a.     1st
b.     2nd
c.     3rd
d.     4th
22.  Sample variance is unbiased estimate of population mean the word
unbiased mean
23.  Which of the following is not public health problem  of Ethiopia
a.     Malaria
b.     Motor accident
c.     HIV
d.     none
24.  Routine health data collection is called
a.     Facility survey
b.     Surveillance
c.     Research
d.     none
25.  Safe mother hood is primarily designed
a.     Designed to decrease maternal mortality due to child birth
b.     Designed to prevent abortion
c.      Designed to prevent maternal infection
d.     None
26.  The most prevalent child killer in Ethiopia
a.     Malnutrition
b.     Malaria
c.     Pneumonia
d.     None
27.  Which of the following shows Global response for health and social
problems
a.     Global fund for TB and HIV
b.     Millennium development goal
c.     Rollback malaria
d.     none
28.  In the Prevention of HIV ‘ABC’ b stands for
a.     Abstinences
b.     Be faithful
c.     Use condom
29.  Trend of HIV in Ethiopia is
a.     Increasing
b.     Decreasing
c.     Not known
d.     none
30.  Relative measure of variables
a.  Standard deviation
b.  Variance
c.  Coefficient of variation
 d.  None
31.  Which of the following is not major cause of hospital death in Ethiopia
a.     TB
b.     HIV
c.     Diabetes
d.     None
32.  The most prevalent type of HIV  in Ethiopia
a.     Type one
b.     Type two
c.     Type three
d.     None

33.  Which one of the following is not included in case definition

a.     Time
b.     Person
c.     Place
d.     Hypostasized risk factor

34.  Which of the following is not probability sampling

a.     Cluster sampling
b.     judgmental sampling
c.     Random sampling
d.     none