COMMUNITY MEDICINE
VAVAS QUES TION
BY
OR NAVSESD AHMSD
PANHWAR 45COMMUNITY MEDICINE
VIVA
CHAPTER NO :01 BASIC DEFINITIONS
1. What is community Medicine ?
Ans. A system of delivery of comprehensive health care to the people bya health
team in order to improve the health of community
2. Whatis preventive medicine?
Ans. The science and art of preventing disease ,prolonging life and promoting
physical and mental health and efficiency
3. what is public health?
Ans. The science and art of preventing disease ,prolonging life and promoting
physical and mental health and efficiency
Through organized community efforts for
The sanitation of the environment
Organizing the medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis, prompt
treatment of disease and prevention of disease
4, Whatis Program
Ans. On going activity which is carried out for an indefinite period of time till the
achievement of objectives according to the specifications
5, Whatare the types of program ?
Ans. Vertical and horizontal Program
6. Whatis Community Diagnosis?
Ans. Identification and quantification of the health problem in a community
7. Whatis Integrated Health service ?
bringing together all types of health services to the community
8. Whatis Target?
Ans. Discrete activity that permits the concept if degree of achievement
9. Whatis illness?Ans. Equilibrium b/w body and it's functions are distrubed and is aware of his
state of being unwell is called illness
10. Whatis disease?
Ans. Itis a condition in which body health is impaired.
11. Whatis eradication ?
Ans. Cessation of infection and disease from the whole world
12. Disease which are eradicated ?
Ans. Small pox on 08-05-80
13. Whatis natural history of disease ?
Ans. Course of a disease process without any intervention
14, Whatis ecological Triad /Epidemiological Triad?
Ans. Host, AgenT & Environment
15. Whatis incubation Period?
Ans. Period of time b/w Entry of disease agentinto host and appearance of sign
and symptoms
16. Whatis Disease Agent?
ans. Substance, living or non living or a force tangible or intengible ,the
excessive presence or relative lack of which may initiate a disease process
17. Whatare the levels of prevention?
Ans. Primodial, primary, secondary and tertiary
18. Whatare the principles of comprehensive health care?
Ans. Availability , accessibility, affordability & acceptablity
CHAPTER NO :02 CONCEPT OF DISEASE & HEALTH
1. Whatis health?
Ans. Health is a state of complete physical, mental , social and spiritual well-
being2. According To W. H. O definition of Health?
Ans. A condition or quality of Human organism expressing the adequate
functioning of the organanism in given conditions, genetic or environmental
3. Whatis difference between illness, Sickness and disease ?
Ans.
illness = Equilibrium b/w body and it's functions
Sickness = State of social dysfunction
Disease = Condition in which body health is impaired
4. Whatis spectrum of disease?.
Ans. Graphic representation of variations in the menefestation of disease
5. Whatare the mortality indicator?
Ans. Crude death rate, life expectancy, infant mortality rate, child mortality rate
6. Whatis Sullivan's Index?
Ans. Expectation of life free of disability
CHAPTER NO:03 EPIDEMIOLOGY
1.Whatis epidemiology?
Ans. Study of distribution and determinantes of health related states or events in
specified population and application of this study to the control of health
problems
2. Whatare the components of epidemiology?
Ans. Disease frequency, disease distribution and disease determinant
3. Whatis Rate?
Ans. Measures the occurrence of some particular eventin a population during a
given time period
4, Whatis Ratio?
Ans. Relation in size between two random quantities
5. Whatis proportion?
Ans. Itis a Ratio which indicates the relation in magnitude of a part of the whole6. Whatis Case Fertility Rate?
Ans. Killing Power of disease or
Ratio of Death to cases
7. Whatis confounding factor?
Ans. Factor that is associated with exposure and disease
8. Whatis morbidity?
Ans. Any departure, subjective or objective, from a state of physiological well
being
9. Whatis incidence?.
Ans. The number of new cases occurring in a defined population during a
specified period of time
10. Whatis attack Rate?
Ans. Itis an incidence rate usually expressed as percent, used only when the
population is exposed to risk for a limited period of time
11. Whatis secondary attack rate?
Ans. Number of exposed persons developing the disease within the Range of
incubation period
12. Whatare the uses of incidence Rate?
Ans. Controlling of disease, research into an etiology & short term planning
13. Whatis prevalence?
Ans. Number of all current cases (New & old ) existing ata given pointin time or
over a period of time in a given population
14. Whatis discriptive epidemiology?
Ans. Description of the occurrence of disease in a population in terms of time
place and person distribution
15. Whatare the types of Trends or fluctuation ?
Ans. Short term, periodic & Long term or secular16. Whatis short term fluctuation?
Ans. The best known short term fluctuation is an epidemic
17.Whatare the types of epidemic ?
Ans. Common point source epidemics
,propagated & slow epidemics
18. Whatis secular trend?
Ans. Progressive increase or decrease over a long period of time generally
several years or decade
19. Whatis Matching?
Ans. The process by which we select controls in such a way that they are similar
to cases with regard to certain pertinent selected variables
20. Whatis Case?
A person who has the particular disease, Health disorder or the condition under
investigation
21. Whatis relative Risk?
Ans. The ratio b/w the incidence of disease among exposed persons and
incidence among non exposed persons
22. Whatis odds ratio?
Ans. Indirect measure of the strength of association between risk factor and
outcome
23, Whatare the steps of Cohort Study?
Ans.
Selections of study subjects
Obtaining Data on exposure
Selection of comprison group
Follow up
Analysis
24, Whatis relative risk?
Ans. Direct measure of the strength of association between risk factor and
outcome25. Whatis attributable Risk?
Difference in incidence rate of disease b/w an exposed group and non exposed
group is called attributable risk
26. What is Randomization?
Ans. Itis statistical procedure by which the participants are allocated into groups
usually called study and control group
27. Whatis Epidemic ?
Ans. The unusual occurance of a disease in a population in excess of its expected
frequency is called epidemics
28. Whatis Bias?
Ans. Any Factor which adversely affects the outcome of study
Or
Any systematic error in the determination of the association between exposure
and disease
CHAPTER NO :04 COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
1,.Whatis infection?
Ans. The process of introduction of micro-organisms into human host followed
by their multiplication within the body at the expense of the host
2. Whatis infestation?
Ans. State of having a parasite in or on the body
3. Name the infectioos disease?
Ans. Cholera, measles, tuberculosis and chicken pox
4, Whatis outbreak?
Ans. Sudden increase incidence of disease
5. Whatis Endemic?
Ans. Constant presence of a disease
Or
Infection agent within a given geographical areaOr
Population group without importation from outside
6. Name the vertical transmission agents?
Ans. TORCH
toxoplasma gonadii
Others (Hepatitis B, AIDS, Syphilis)
Rubella virus
Cytomegalovirus
Herpes virus
7. Whatis Generation Time?
Ans. Interval between receipt of infection by a host and maximal infectivity of
host
8. Whatis Quarantine ?
Ans. Measure directed towards the isolation of healthy traveller
9. Whatis Disinfection?
Ans. Destruction of infecting agents (Pathogenic Organism outside the body
10. Whatis Biostatics?
Ans. Basic science of collection, analysis, quantification and interpretation of
Data in relation to vital events
11. Whatis Data?
Ans. Collection of observation in a scientific way
12. Whatare the functions of biostatics?
Ans.
To find the nature and extent of illness in the community
To find out the causation for the existence of health problems
To find out the success or failure of various health measures
To research purpose to decrease IMR at BHU
13. Name the qualitative data/Catagoral ?
Ans.
Nominal data = Data divided into groupsOrdinal data = Data in some order or Rank
14. Whatis Histogram?
Ans. Pictorial diagram ofa frequency distribution table
15. Whatis standard deviation?.
Ans. Measure of dispersion around mean
16. What is Mean?
Ans. Value which is obtained by dividing the sum ofall observation by their total
number
17. Whatis co-efficient of variation ?
Ans. Standard deviation expressed as percentage of mean
18. Whatis voil?
Ans. Voil confains more than one doses of vaccine
19. Ampoule
Ans. Ampoule contains only one dose of vaccine
20. Whatis screening?
Ans. The search for unrecognized disease or defect by means for rapidly
applied tests, examinations or others procedures in apparently healthy
individuals
21. Whatare the uses of screening?
Ans.
Case detection
Control of disease
Reaserch purpose
Educational opportunities
22. Whatare the types of screening?
Ans.
Mass screening
High risk / selective screening
Multiphase screening23. Whatis sampling?
Ans. A process of taking a portion from whole, with all its inherent qualities
24, Whatare the types of sampling?
Ans. Probability & Non probability sampling
25. Whatis demography?
Ans. Science of population and mathematical knowledge of population changes
and is concerned with size, structure ,distribution and changes in population
26. Measles combine with which vitamins ?
Ans. Vitamins A (Prevent from blindness)
27. What is growth rate?
Ans. Rate at which a population is growing
Or
Difference b/w crude birth rate and crude death
28. Whatis demographic transition ? Ans. Moving from a stage of high birth
rate and a high death rate to a low birth rate and a low death rate is called
Demographic Transition
5 stages of demographic cycle
1.1st stage is high stationary
2.2nd stage is early expanding
3.3rd stage is late expanding
4. 4th stage is low stationary
5.5th stage is declining stage
29, Whatis density of population?
Ans. Number of persons per square mile
30. What is demography?
Ans. Scientific study of humen population
31. whatis PHC ?Ans. Essential health care made universally accessible to individuals and
families in the community
32. Whatare the components of PHC?
Ans.
Promotion of food supply, water supply and sanitation
Education about prevailing health problem and method of preventing and
controlling them
Promotion of mental health
Immunization
Mother child health & Family planning
Provision of essential drugs
Treatment of common disease and injury
Control of local endemic disease
33. Whatare the principle of PHC?
Ans. Equity , community participation, intersectorial co-ordination &
appropriate Technology
34, Whatare the uses of water?
Ans. Domestic, industrial, public and agricultural
35. Whatare the Classification of water?
Ans.
Potable water
Clean water
Polluted water
Contaminated water
36. Whatare the major sources of water?
Ans.
Rain water
Ground water
Surface water
37. Whatis reproductive health?
Ans. A condition in which the reproductive process is accomplished in a state of
complete physical, mental and social well being38 what are the components of reproductive health
Ans.
Safe mother hood
Fertality regulation
Infertility
STD infection
Malignancies of reproductive tract
Neoborn care
39. Whatare the pillar of safe motherhood ?
Ans.
Family planning -> Antenatal care -> clean and safe delivery -> essential
obstretric care
40. Whatis family planning?
Ans. Way of thinking and living that is adopted voluntarily upon the basis of
knowledge
41. Whatare the uses of epidemiology?
Ans.
To study history of disease
Community diagnosis
Planning and evaluation
Evaluation of individuals risk and chances
Syndrome identification
Completing the Natural history of disease
Searching for cause and risk factor
42. Whatis descriptive epidemiology?
Ans. Description of the occurance ofa disease in a population
Unsolved Vivas Questions
Comunity medicine definition
Health
Epidemiology and its typesIncidence
Prevalence
Cross sectional studies
Hepatitis B and C transmision
Treatment
Which one is more dangerous and why
Why polio can'tbe eradicated?
Diseases transmitted through intestine
Sampling types
Whatis snow ball sampling
Whatis Bell shaped curve
What is purpose of research
Whatis descriptive study
Mean?
Median?
Mode?
Which one we use frequently?and Why?
Whatis leishmaniasis?
Types of Preservation of food
Demographic transition
Role of male in family planing
Safe motherhood pillar
Epidemiology
Determinents
DistributionSubhany Shuru waran numbers laye(131 onwards)
Is Family Planning part of reproductive health ? Yes
What other things you study in reproductive health, ?
Male female reproductive systems?
What changes surprise you at the time of maturity? (The Secondary sexual
characteristics and Nocturnal secrtions etc)
What you do to avoid such surprises? Reproductive Health Education.
Which level of prevention is Health Education?
What type of instructions you will give to controle STDs?
Specific protection against viral infections?
Specific protection against Malaria?
EPI schedule (whole).
Drug addiction and it's sideeffects on human..?
Safemotherhood?
Components of Research ?
Screening and Sampling types?
Common public health problems in Pakistan?
Amoebiasis and it's types?
Screening nd types...
LBW nd it’s causes
Break point
Superchlorination
Measles
Communicable nd non-communicable
Dechlorination agent
Slow and rapid sand filter
Vital layer nd it's other names nd it's function
EPI schedule
Measles schedule
Zoonotic
Epizootic
Herd immunity
Maternal mortality causes
SMR
StandardizationPredictive value and p value
Ppm
Community medicine
Health WHO
Primary health care
Rural health problems
Reproductive health
Fortification
Salt iodine fortification
Supplimenation
Principals of primary health care,
Elements,
Whatis approprite technology,
Is fortification appropriate technology?
IMNCI,
Family planning,
Reproductive health components,
Health indicators,
Methods of contraception,
Which one is contraindicated in age above 35,and why itis so,what are
complications of these drugs,
Whatare uses of epidemiology,
Whatare consequences of drug abuse,
Whatare effects of drug abuse on others,
Research,
Components of research,
Many more
Obesity measurment
Bmi
Non communicalbe disease name budaaye
Zoonosis diseasw namw
Droplectinfectious diesase
Artheropod borne infection
Occupational health
Occupation disease budaaye jaathe tu thake
Reproduction health aye family plannind main fark cha aahePillar of safe motherhood
Matermortality jaa factor budaaye jeko kal seq aahyo eeho bhi chsyutee
Case control study cha aahe
Case control study main case aye control jo protocol
Epidemiolgy defintion and aims
Level of prevention and health education kehme eendy aa
Milleneum development goals ja name budayo
Screening and types
Most common carcinoma of males and females and screening for this
Mesles aye dengue sutho parho maakhe sutho puchuyee
Malaria ji vaccine thendy
Epi full rato chart
Modes of intervention of measles
Tetanos doses both in pregnant and not pregnant womesm
Droplet infection disease
Covid prevention
Is Family Planning part of reproductive health ? Yes
Whatother things you study in reproductive health, ?
Male female reproductive systems?
What changes surprise you at the time of maturity? (The Secondary sexual
characteristics and Nocturnal secrtions etc)
What you do to avoid such surprises? Reproductive Health Education.
Which level of prevention is Health Education?
What type of instructions you will give to controle STDs?
Specific protection against viral infections?
Specific protection against Malaria?
EPI schedule (whole).
Drug addiction and it's sideeffects on human..?
Safemotherhood?
Components of Research ?
Screening and Sampling types?
Common public health problems in Pakistan?
Amoebiasis and it's types?
Case control and Cohort
Sampling and types
MicronutrientsVitamin diseases
Sand fly
Demography
EPI doses
Growth rate and Density
Side effects of Over dose of Measles vaccine.
Incidence rate
Types of Leishmaniasis
Normal requirements of macronutrients
Name the macronutrient and micronutrient
Whatis Epidemiology
Uses of epidemiology
Whatis demography
Whatis sampling
Types of sampling
Whats is Screening
Types of Screening
Defination of biostatics
Mean ,mode, and median
Measures of dispersion
How Will you Distribute acc to time place and person?
National variations
Internatinal variations.
Rural urban variations
Whatis Cohort Study
Advantages and Disadvantages of Cohort study
IMR ratio in pakistan
Causes of maternal Mortality
Most common Haemorrage
Ans Postpartal
WHO day
Tuberculosis Day
Random Uncontrol trail And its importance
Whatis Bias
Whatis Blinding
Give example of blinding.
Disease cause by Air Pollution
EPI ScheduleHow will you manage patient with Snake bite .
What is APGAR
Demography..demographic transition,cycle
Randomization
Diff btween cohort and case control...cross sectional studies...snow ball and
stratified sampling
Screening sampling...epidemiology case control and cohort study...how to
eliminate poverty...specificity senstivity...diff btween cohort and experimental
studies.
Pnemoconiosis and irreversible lung disese
Mean median mode
Which one is used in data having extreme values
Standard deviation
Balanced diet
epidemiology
cohart
case control
ocupational health
ppm full form
water filtration
slow sand rapid sand filter
standardization
SMR
rural health urban health
Screening nd types ...
LBW nd it’s causes
Break point
Superchlorination
Measles
Communicable nd non-communicable
Dechlorination agent
Slow and rapid sand filter
Vital layer nd it's other names nd it's function
EPI schedule
Measles schedule
Zoonotic
EpizooticHerd immunity
Maternal mortality causes
SMR
Standardization
: Family planning
Contraceptive defr konc methds h
Fertility rate
Reproductive age of women
Demography def nd transitions
Epidemiology defnd transitions
Tb ki investigation symptom
Measles k complication
Which is most several complication of measles which is lethal
Radiation hazards radiation measuring unit
Unit of noice
Rural urban areas
Epidemic which was common now has eradicated
‘Wastes
Incernation definations
Epidemology def
Cohort benifit drawbacks
Mumps define
Unit of lightradiation
Define drift and shiftin influenza
1)Names of communicable diseases.
2)Dose of rota virus vaccine and route.
3)IMNCI color coding management Green color is for??
4)odd ratio formula.
5) major drawback of case control.
6)secondary level health care facilities.
7) immunization and 9 EPI disease.
8) types of epidemiological study.
8) single diff: b/w observational and experimental study.
9)Recall bias.
10) no of control for single case.
11)diff b/w family planning and reproductive health.
12) Hepatitis virus types.
13) case control and cohort diff.14)result of case control study.
16 murine typhus caused by
for 50 cases number of controls needed?
Types of tick
Blinding and its types
Random uncontroled trail
smr
Standarization
Break point of chlorine
Instrumental used in cholrine
Types of venyilation test of chlorine
Indicatos for health assemnt
Mental health ka ek snerio tha
How to treat peeson if snake venom micronutrients defiency
Rare disesases
Disesas due to air conditioners
P value
Probability
Difference between deep and shallow well
Sensitive test for cholrine
Horroks method
TDS = TOTAL DISSOLVE SOLUTE
Less than 300 mg/litre
Reproductive health :-Condition in which the reproductive process is
accomplished in
State of having physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being
Essential health care made available in all th the individual society is called PHC
Measure of central tendency
Mean
Median
Mode
Measure of dispersion
Standard deviation
Mean deviationRange
Disaster :- Any occurance that results into loss of humen life, health loss on large
scale
Malaria type
Vivax and malarial
Birth specific = minimium 2years
Benign malaria = vivax and malarae
Maligant = plasmodium falciparum
Leady health worker = Six weeks training
Scale low
Leady health visitor = After matric, 2 yeare course
Scale high
Study design of epidemiology
Observational and experimental
Observational type
Descriptive and analytical
Analytical
Case control and cohort
Randomization = Allocation of subjects into SIMILLIAR groups
IT IS USED TO MINIMIZE THE VIAS
Sendatory life habits
Hypertension
CHD
DM
CANCER
DISASTER TYPE
TROPOLOGICAL AND METROPOLOGICAL
NATURAL DISASTER
ARTIFICIAL = ATOMIC EXPLOSION AND BIOTERESIM