Preventive Medicine and Public Health Samplex Test 5

The infant mortality rate of a country in a given year is 45.1 per year per 1000 live birth means: 

Which of the following is an alternate to the PIE chart? 

An investigator wanted to determine if there is significant difference in the mean systolic blood pressure of 10 women before and after oral contraceptive use for 3 months. The appropriate statistical test for the significance of the study is: 

The primary objective of health education is to: 

The minimum distance of a pit privy from a well in a sandy soil is: 

The association between low birth weight and maternal smoking during pregnancy can be studied by obtaining smoking histories from women at the time of the prenatal visit and then subsequently correlating birthweight with smoking histories. What type of study is this? 

All of the following are steps necessary to plan and conduct a case-control study, EXCEPT;

As an epidemiologist, you are asked to recommend the type of study appropriate to the needs of researchers who would like to study the causes of a rare form of sarcoma. They have discovered a registry of this form of cancer and have access to a large data base of patients, which unfortunately is only a few years old.

What type of study design would you recommend? 

Randomization is a process used for assignment or allotment of subjects to treatment and control groups in experimental studies.

Randomization ensures: 

“The absence of valvular calcification in an adult suggests that severe valvular aortic stenosis is not present”. This statement means that: 

In a review of 3000 patients in whom adult onset diabetes was diagnosed, 2000 of these patients were obese at the time of diagnosis. The investigator concluded that there is an association between diabetes and obesity. What made this conclusion misleading or false? 

The newborn with cytomegalovirus infection at birth most commonly presents with: 

A familial aggregation pattern exists for cancer of all the following organs EXCEPT: 

The use of estrogen-containing oral contraceptive pills increases the risk of: 

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

The most prevalent mental health disorder in young children is: 

Berylliosis is associated with: 

Asbestos constitutes hazard to health especially to what kind of worker? 

Passive immunization is the major means of prevention of which of the following diseases?

The major environmental source of lead absorbed in the human blood stream in adults is: