Multiple choice

As the C.M.O. you are responsible for the success of the pulse polio drive in the city. One community is extremely reluctant to get their children immunized fearing complications later in life. You are under tremendous pressure to include the children from that community in your drive. Course of actions

  1. Appeal to the elders of the community to exhort people to participate.
  2. Arrange to have street plays highlighting the benefits of immunization and appeals by prominent personalities of the city quoting their own healthy experience with the immunization.
  3. Show numbers and data from immunizations across the state from past years proving no serious side effects of the immunization.
  4. Hint at preferential treatment of participating families at the State hospital.

  1. 1 only

  2. 2 only

  3. 1 and 2 only

  4. 2, 3 and 4 only
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Street plays with data (2) appeals through education and trusted voices. Numbers showing safety (3) provides evidence-based reassurance. Preferential treatment hint (4) creates incentive. Elders' appeal (1) is good but less systematic. Combining 2, 3, and 4 uses multiple strategies: education, evidence, and incentives.

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