Urban Disease Patterns — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Kuppuswamy scale was designed to classify the socio-economic status in _____ areas

Answer: urban and peri-urban

Flashcard 2: _____ committee is responsible for Urban revamping scheme

Answer: Krishnan

Flashcard 3: passive case surveilance for malaria started  with _____

Answer: urban malaria scheme(1971)

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Flashcard 4: Integrated vector management uses the same methods for _____ and _____ in urban areas

Answer: malaria

Flashcard 5: anopheles _____ spreads malaria in urban areas

Answer: stephensi

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Flashcard 6: National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) was launched in the year _____

Answer: 2013

Extra: The National Health Mission (NHM) was launched in 2013, subsuming the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM, launched in 2005) and the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM, launched in 2013).

Flashcard 7: kuppuswamy index is a _____ index

Answer: urban socio economic

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Flashcard 8: What is the land requirement for a Higher Secondary School?

Answer: 10 acres (Rule: 10 acres for the first 1000 students + 1 acre for every additional 100 students)

Extra: Norms for school land (Park): • Nursery and Primary school: 1-3 acres • Higher Secondary school: 10 acres

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Answer: Urban CHC population size

Extra: PHC,ANM,USHA

Flashcard 10: BG Prasad scale was designed to classify the socio-economic status in _____ areas

Answer: urban and rural