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Public health has been defined as "the science and art of preventing disease", prolonging life and improving quality of life through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations (public and private), communities and individuals.(Source: Wikipedia)

Public Health Practice Test Questions
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1. The process in which there is continuous scrutiny of factors that determines the occurrence and distribution of disease is termed as
2. What is the meaning of community?
3. Koplik’s spot is a characteristic lesion of
4. NFHS stands for :
5. What is the population of a corporation?
6. Contraction without regularity, rhythm and progressive lengthening in duration is known as
7. The sum of the age-specific birth rates (5-year age groups between 10 and 49) for female residents of a specified geographic area during a specified time period:
8. QALY means:
9. Vicious cycle means:
10. Virtuous cycle means:
11. What is the exchange of information between individuals of same status or designation?
12. Which is the word used for converting contents into codes?
13. Weaning started at the age of–
14. Which index adjusts the average achievement to reflect the inequalities between men and women:
15. Which index reflects women’s disadvantages in reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market:
16. Actual female mortality rates exceed expected rate called as:
17. Child nutritional status measured in terms of three anthropometric indicators. They are:
18. Pernicious anemia is caused by–
19. India is passing through which Stage of Demographic transition:
20. Number of live births per 1000 live male births defined as:
21. Which is the technique used to dislodge the impacted foreign body from upper respiratory tract to clear the airway is?
22. Measure of overall disease burden:
23. Probability of dying between birth and exactly one year of age expressed per 1,000 live births: :
24. Reproductive and child health was launched in which year:
25. Which concept is based on the definition of health given by World Health Organization