Role of the Government

Q. disease has been completely eradicated.

1. Polio
2. Smallpox
3. Tuberculosis
4. HIV-AIDS

Q.

Do you think regional inequality exists even in health infrastructure in India? Give reasons for your answer.

Q.

Which of the following does GBD stand for?

1. Gross Bad Disease

2. Gross Burden of Diseases

3. Global Bad Disease

4. Global Burden of Diseases

Q. When was the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) established?

1. 1952
2. 1947
3. 1951
4. 1950

Q.

The Indian systems of medicine have a huge potential to solve our healthcare problems because ______.

1. they are effective.

2. they are safe.

3. they are inexpensive.

4. they are extensively backed by research.

Q.

Who is responsible for the regulation of health-related issues like medical education, drugs and poisons, and food adulteration?

1. The government

2. The private sector

3. The association of doctors

4. All of these

Q. Health care facilities in rural India are adequate.

1. True
2. False

Q.

More than 70% of the hospitals in India are run by the government now. State true or false.

1. True

2. False

Q.

India stands below the world average of 6% on health spending. State true or false.

1. True

2. False

Q. National Sample Survey Organization is.

1. an institution responsible to collect resources
2. None of these
3. an institution responsible to collect data on informal sector credit
4. an institution responsible to collect data on formal sector credit

Q. Between the first and the eighth plan, the expenditure on health has been .

1. increasing
2. decreasing
3. constant
4. zero

Q. What are the various forms of health expenditures as an important source of human capital formation?

1. Preventive medicine
2. Curative medicine
3. Social medicine
4. All of these

Q. Which of the following changes would most improve the focus of the passage [6]?

1. Move sentence (3) so that it follows sentence (4)
2. Delete sentence (5)
3. Move sentence (5) so that it follows sentence (3)
4. Delete sentence (6)

Q. India's expenditure on public health in the year 2015-16 was _____.

1. 2.6% of the GDP
2. 1.6% of the GDP
3. 1.3% of the GDP
4. 2.9% of the GDP

Q. The expenditure on health sector has been between 1.1% to _____ of GDP during 2000-01 to 2014-15.

1. 1.4%
2. 2.2%
3. 2.7%
4. 1.8%