International Bodies

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What part does health play in the individual’s working life?

Q.

Which of the following diseases has been eradicated from India?

1. Polio

2. Leprosy

3. Measles

4. Smallpox

Q.

Personal health is influenced by community health The statement is

1. True

2. False

3. Uncertain

4. None

Q. State the main functions of Red Cross.

Q. State the main functions of World Health Organisation.

Q. Which of the following diseases has been eradicated from India.

1. Leprosy
2. Polio
3. Measles
4. Small pox

Q. WHO stands for World Health Organization.

1. True
2. False

Q. state any two conditions essential for good health

Q. Why do we say that good economic conditions and social harmony are needed for a person to achieve individual health?

Q. Question 3
Are the solutions to the above questions necessarily the same or different? Why?

Q.

Which organization is responsible for eradicating small pox?

1. WHO

2. Red Cross

3. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

4. United Nations Children's Fund.

Q. (i) List any two major activities of the Red Cross.
(ii) Write any two major reasons for the population explosion in the world.
(iii) Write the names of four nitrogenous bases in a DNA molecule.

Q. Headquarter of World Health Organisation (WHO) is located at

1. New York
2. Geneva
3. London
4. Paris

Q. Which of the following disease is now considered to be eradicated from India?

1. AIDS
2. Plague
3. Kala azar
4. Small pox

Q.

What are the preventive measures for hepatitis B? [2 MARKS]

Q. According to WHO, health is

1. Absence of disease
2. State of complete physical, mental and social well being
3. Physical fitness
4. State of body and mind where there is a balance of certain humor

Q. What does WHO stand for?

1. World Hygiene Organisation
2. World Health Organisation
3. World Healthy Organisation
4. Wide Healthy Organisation

Q. In which year was WHO established?

Q.

Why do boys brain weigh more than the girls. Does this give them th ability to become intelligent

Q. Name the world organisation concerned with the campaigning for control of endemic goitre.

1. WHO
2. Red Cross
3. Local bodies
4. National bodies

Q. State two functions of WHO.

Q. Name the international health organisation which educates people in accident prevention.

Q.

The WHO has headquarters in

1. Paris

2. Hague

3. Geneva

4. Washington DC

Q. Write the full form of WHO.

1. World Healthy Organisation
2. Wise Health Organisation
3. Wise and Healthy Organisation
4. World Health Organisation

Q. Which among the following is/are the activities of the Red Cross?

1. To extend relief to the victims of earthquake
2. To train mid wives
3. To suggest quarantine measures
4. To lay pharmaceutical standards

Q.

(i) A viral disease which generally affects children and causes paralysis of limbs. It is about to be eradicated from the world. Name this disease.
(ii) Name the programme which was launched globally in 1995-1996 with an aim to eradicate a viral disease from the world.
(iii) What is the target age group of patients at present in this programme ?

Q. WHO headquarter is located in

1. Paris
2. Berlin
3. Geneva
4. New York

Q. Categorise the following activities as per the functions of the Red Cross society and the WHO.
(1) To suggest quarantine measures prevent spread of disease
(2) Humanitarian services to victim of war
(3) To educate people in accident prevention
(4) To promote projects for research on disease