Preventive Medicine and Public Health Samplex Test 2

In the Philippines, the following agents can be safely used in water treatment to make it potable for human consumption, except: 

As part of an effort to reduce length of hospital stay, renal transplant patients were placed on a clinical pathway. All of the first seven patients placed on the pathway did well except for the last patient, in whom pancreatitis developed and necessitated a month in the ICU. The lengths of stay for these patients were 4, 3, 5, 7, 4, 6 and 41 days. What are the mean, median, and mode of the length-of-stay data? 

An investigator selected a sample of 100 women attending a social hygiene clinic to determine if there is any relationship between OCP use and Chlamydia infection. He then measured the predictor and outcome variables by taking a history of OCP use and sending a cervical swab to a lab for Chlamydia culture. What is the design utilized in this study? 

Primary Health Care (PHC) refers to 

Mrs. Yolly Yanin, 64 yo, began having difficulty remembering things, missing time of work and appearing in public in an untidy state. She was brought into a Family Physician for consult and was diagnosed to have Alzheimer’s disease. Because her condition seemed to progress rapidly, the AP did a home visit. Upon arrival, he found Mrs. Yanin unkempt, bedridden and has lost weight. The daughter who lives with her complained of exhaustion and getting very little support from her siblings. The Family Physician makes use of several tools to assess the condition of the index patient and her family. Which of the following tools and its corresponding indication for use is incorrect? 

Which of the following is the ultimate goal of an epidemiologic investigation? 

Which of the following statistical tests would be most appropriate for assessing whether there are significant differences in 1-minute Apgar scores between infants born by emergency cesarean section and those born by vaginal delivery? 

The Sanitation Code of the Philippines prescribes the following, except: 

Global warming is the gradual increase of temperature of the Earth’s lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases. What will increase in concentration if there is any increase in global temperature that’s why it is considered as the most important greenhouse gas?

Ms. Tan was brought to the ED due to fatigue, with clammy & moist skin after staying on the beach during a summer vacation. Upon your PE, patient was found to be hyperthermic, with weak pulses and low BP. Based on the history and PE, you suspect that this patient is suffering from a general systemic heat disorder resulting from deficiency of water or salt leading to circulatory insufficiency. Your initial impression is most probably 

Which statement is correct regarding obesity? 

Chance of finding effect in your study if it truly exists in the population is described by which epidemiologic term? 

Effective means of preventing trichinosis in humans include: 

The time from the disappearance of symptoms until recovery is called 

Among these statistical analysis, which is the most appropriate for comparing blood glucose levels of male & female rats using three different drugs? 

People who drink coffee tend to smoke more and for this reason coffee drinkers have a higher risk of lung cancer is a statement which displays which epidemiologic term? 

In the study of the cause of a disease, the essential difference between an experimental study and an observational study is that the experimental investigation 

Dr. Jenny Yous developed a new diagnostic test for syphilis. When the agent is added to blood, the organism develop a characteristic ring around them (she fondly calls it ring-around the syphilis/RAS test). She performs the test on 100 patients known to have syphilis and 100 patients known not to have syphilis, w/ the ff. results: 

All of the following are correct about the RAS test, except: 

In comparing the difference between two means, the value of p if found to be 0.70. You interpret this as: 

The development of neuropathic symptoms is associated with chronic exposure to all of the following substances except: