Semester: 1st

Qn. Set Code-1 Programme:B.Tech

Branch: Scheme-A
(Science Elective)

AUTUMN END SEMESTER EXAMINATION-2022

1st Semester B.Tech
SCIENCE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
PE10002
(For 2022 Admitted Batch)
Time: 3 Hours Full Marks: 50
Answer any SIX questions.
Question paper consists of four SECTIONS i.e. A, B, C and D.
Section A is compulsory.
Attempt minimum one question each from Sections B, C, D.
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable
and all parts of a question should be answered at one place only.

SECTION-A
1. Answer the following questions. [1  10]
(a) List three core functions of public health.
(b) What are the three elements of ‘Epidemiological
Triad’?
(c) Give example of two diseases that are spread by droplet
infection.
(d) Name two measures of morbidity.
(e) What does QALY stands for?
(f) What do you understand by Mode of a variable?
(g) List three environmental factors affecting human
health.
(h) According to John Snow, what was the mode of
transmission of Cholera in the London outbreak in
1854?

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 (i) Write the WHO definition of Health. (b) What are the differences between Case-control and [4]
Cohort study designs?
(j) Name three behavior change models used in public
health.
8. (a) How can engineering sciences be applied to prevent [4]
SECTION-B diseases?
2. (a) What is tertiary prevention? Provide examples. [4] (b) What is epidemiologic surveillance? What are its [4]
types?
(b) Describe Germ Theory of Disease. [4]

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3. (a) What do you mean by social determinants of health? [4]
Provide suitable examples.
(b) What do you understand by Incubation period? How is [4]
it different from latent period?

SECTION-C
4. (a) Public health is multi-disciplinary. Explain. [4]
(b) What is the difference between categorical and [4]
continuous variables? Give examples of each.

5. (a) What is Health Management Information System [4]

(HMIS)? What are its uses and strengths?
(b) Why sanitation is important for good health? Explain. [4]

6. (a) What are the different scales of measurement of [4]

variables?
(b) Explain why health promotion is important. [4]

SECTION-D
7. (a) How does rapid growth in urbanization affecting [4]
human health? Answer with suitable examples.

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