Community Health Nursing Exam (145 Questions)

60. The municipality assigned to you has a population of about 20/000. Estimate the number of 1-4 year old children who be given Retinol capsule 200.000 every 6 months. A. 1,500 B. 1,800 C. 2,000 D. 2,300 {Ans: D. 2,300 Based on the Philippine population composition, to estimate the number of 1-4 year old children, multiply total population by 11.5%.}114. Secondary prevention for malaria includes? A. Planting of neem or eucalyptus trees B. Residual spraying of insecticides at night C. Determining whether a place is endemic or not D. Growing larva-eating fish in mosquito breeding places {Ans: C. Determining whether a place is endemic or not This is diagnostic and therefore secondary level prevention. The other choices are for primary prevention.}66. Which statistic can give the most accurate reflection of the health status of a community? A. 1-4 year old age-specific mortality rate B. Infant mortality rate C. Swaroop's index D. Crude death rate {Ans: C. Swaroop's index Swaroop's index is the proportion of deaths aged 50 years and above. The higher the Swaroop's index of a population, the greater the proportion of the deaths who were able to reach the age of at least 50 years,