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Questions Related to our health

Which of the following is the initial step towards good health?

  1. Adequate housing

  2. Natural environment

  3. Clean water and air

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Health is dependent on physical, social and mental well-being. A healthy environment is required to maintain the physical fitness and for sustaining social well-being. This includes characteristics of the natural environment, the built environment and the social environment. Factors such as clean water and air, adequate housing, and safe communities and roads all have been found to contribute to good health, especially to the health of infants and children. 

So, the correct answer is option D.

A healthy person is one who is free from

  1. Diseases.

  2. Work.

  3. Friends.

  4. Enemies.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A healthy person can be described as disease free, but a disease free person cannot be a healthy person. Generally, the healthy person is free from any infection, disease or any other mental stress. As health is determined by all the three factors like physical, mental and social while the disease depends only on physical factors.

Thus, the correct answer is option A. 

Health regulates the level of .......... efficiency of living organisms.

  1. Regulatory

  2. Metabolic

  3. Strength

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Health is the ability of an individual to adjust according to the social and environmental conditions. A healthy person has a high metabolic rate as compared to an unhealthy person. The fluctuation in the metabolic rate causes disease.

Diagnosis and treatment of mental illness belongs to science of

  1. Psychiatry

  2. Psychology

  3. Medical transcription

  4. Pathology


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

  • Psychiatry is the medical speciality devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions.
  • Psychology is the science of behaviour and mind Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.
  • Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession dealing with the process of transcribing voice-recorded medical reports that are dictated by physicians, nurses and other healthcare practitioners
  • Pathology is the study of disease. It is the bridge between science and medicine.

So, the correct answer is 'Psychiatry'.

Vision problem occurring in old age is known as:

  1. Myopia

  2. Presbyopia

  3. Hypermetropia

  4. Anepia


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Presbyopia is a condition that occurs due to the loss of the flexibility of lens with the old age. It creates difficulty in focussing on near objects. It can be corrected by using convex lens. 

Myopia or nearsightedness is a condition in which the eyeball is longer than normal. Light rays converge in front of retina forming a blurred image. The condition can be corrected by using concave lens. 
Hypermetropia or farsightedness is a condition in which the eyeball is shorter than the normal. Light rays strike the retina before converging causing a blurred image. The condition can be corrected by using convex lens. 
Anepia is a cognitive disorder marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or express language in its written or spoken form. 
Thus, the correct answer is option B.

Caring of ills and injured is

  1. Nursing

  2. Physiotherapy

  3. Pathology

  4. Paediatrics


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
  • Nursing is the profession or practice of providing care for the sick, infirm(physically or mentally weak) and injured. 
  • The 4 aims of nursing are promoting health, prevent illness, restore health, and facilitate coping with death and disability.
  • Hence Caring for ills and injured is Nursing.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Nursing'.

Being healthy means

  1. Free of infection by pathogen.

  2. Tension free mental status.

  3. Living in polluted environment.

  4. Both A and B


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Healthy body indicates both mental & physical health. Health depends on three major factor physical, social and mental. Free of infection by pathogen sustains physical fitness and a stable mind provides mental fitness.

So, the correct answer is option D.

Health is state of complete physical, mental, social well being and not merely absence of __________ or __________.

  1. Dharma or Artha

  2. Kama or Moksha

  3. Disease or infirmity

  4. Disease or Spirituality


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

According to WHO, health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental, social well being and not merely absence of any disease or infirmity. Health may also be defined as the ability to adapt and manage physical, mental and social changes throughout the life.

Thus, the correct answer is 'Disease or infirmity.'

Fitness is the end result of?

  1. Ability of adopt

  2. Natural selection

  3. Both of these

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A

World Health Day is celebrated every year on 

  1. 7$^{th}$ September

  2. 7$^{th}$ November

  3. 7$^{th}$ April

  4. 7$^{th}$ October


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

World Health Day is celebrated every year on  April 7th. It is acknowledged by various governments and non-governmental organisations to spread awareness towards good health. So, the correct answer is option C.