FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2017
POSSESSION/USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
SOCIAL AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
PAPER IV
SPM/D/17/45/IV
Time 3 hours
Max. Marks 100
• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
• Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space
• Answer all the parts of a single question together.
• Start the question to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.
Write short notes on:
1. Salient features of MTP Act 1971.
Your recommendations regarding amendments to this
Act in the light of judgments of various courts in the
country
5+5
2. Submit a proposal for a National Road Traffic Accident
Prevention and Control Programme for the country.
10
3. 20 patients have been admitted to the local Government
hospital with microbiological confirmation of new dengue
strain. Submit a plan for investigation and containing
this incident.
10
4. Define 'Nutraceuticals' with examples.
Food Standards and Safety Authority Guidelines for
regulation of 'Nutraceuticals'
3+7
5. What is 'depression'?
Clinical features for diagnosing depression.
Strategy for secondary prevention of depression in
rural India.

6. Enumerate the steps in health education planning.
Focus Group Discussion.
5+5
7. Role of Niti Aayog in health planning.
Social pathology.
Social Security.

FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2017
POSSESSION/USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
8. Parametric Tests
Blinding in research studies.
Heat Stress Indices

9. Pearl's Index
Work Sampling
Difference between cost benefit and cost effective
analysis

10. Management sequence of a sudden disaster situation.
Triage
Define emergency preparedness.