RRB Health & Malaria Inspector flashcards
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- Railway Board
- Apex body under the Ministry of Railways that frames policy and manages Indian Railways; its Chairman is ex-officio Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Railways.
- Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY
- National health assurance scheme launched in 2018 providing secondary and tertiary hospitalisation cover of Rs 5 lakh per family per year to eligible poor households.
- Simple interest formula
- Interest equals principal multiplied by rate multiplied by time, divided by 100; used when interest is computed only on the original principal.
- Combined mean formula
- For two groups of sizes n1 and n2 with means m1 and m2, the combined mean is (n1·m1 + n2·m2) divided by (n1 + n2).
- Alphabet reverse position
- The reverse alphabet position of a letter equals 27 minus its forward position; thus A is 26 and Z is 1 in reverse order.
- Syllogism validity rule
- A conclusion follows only if it is true in every possible Venn diagram consistent with the premises; a single counter-diagram invalidates it.
- Plasmodium life cycle
- Sporozoites from a mosquito enter liver cells, mature to merozoites that invade red cells, and gametocytes are taken up by the next feeding mosquito.
- Active versus passive immunity
- Active immunity develops after infection or vaccination and is long-lasting; passive immunity uses ready-made antibodies and gives immediate but temporary protection.
- PM2.5
- Airborne particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less; it penetrates deep into alveoli and carries the greatest health risk.
- Biochemical oxygen demand
- BOD measures the oxygen consumed by microorganisms decomposing organic matter in water; a high value indicates heavy organic pollution.
- Incidence versus prevalence
- Incidence counts new cases per population at risk per unit time; prevalence counts all existing cases in the population at a point or period.
- Sensitivity of a test
- Sensitivity equals true positives divided by true positives plus false negatives; it is the proportion of truly diseased persons correctly identified.
- Cerebral malaria
- Severe falciparum malaria with coma or altered consciousness, convulsions or coma not explained by another cause; treated with parenteral artesunate.
- Hypnozoite
- Dormant liver-stage form of Plasmodium vivax and ovale that can reactivate months later, causing relapse; cleared by primaquine after G6PD testing.
- Indoor residual spraying
- Application of a residual insecticide to interior wall surfaces of dwellings to kill malaria vectors resting indoors after feeding; a core vector-control intervention.
- Aedes aegypti breeding habit
- A day-biting mosquito that breeds in clean stagnant water in domestic containers; source reduction by emptying and covering containers is the main control.
- Mass drug administration
- Annual single-dose administration of DEC plus albendazole to entire at-risk populations for five years to interrupt lymphatic filariasis transmission.
- Bio-toilet in coaches
- Coach toilet using anaerobic bacteria in a bio-digester tank to decompose human waste, avoiding discharge of untreated excreta on railway tracks.
- Residual chlorine test
- On-site test of free chlorine remaining after disinfection; a residual of about 0.2 to 0.5 mg per litre indicates effective chlorination of water.
- Rule of nines
- Burn extent estimate: each arm 9%, each leg 18%, front trunk 18%, back trunk 18%, head 9%, perineum 1% of total body surface area.
- Heat stroke
- Medical emergency with core temperature above 40 degrees Celsius and altered mental status; requires rapid cooling and urgent hospital transfer.
- KAP survey
- Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice in a community; it identifies the gap between what people know and what they actually do.
- Interpersonal communication
- Face-to-face health education between a worker and community members; most effective for behaviour change because it allows dialogue, questions and local tailoring.
- ASHA
- Accredited Social Health Activist, a trained female community health worker, roughly one per 1000 population, linked to the sub-centre and paid by performance.
- VHSNC
- Village Health, Sanitation and Nutrition Committee, a panchayat-linked body that plans local health action and manages untied funds for village-level activities.
- National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme
- Programme covering malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis, kala-azar and lymphatic filariasis through integrated vector control and case management.
- Herd immunity threshold
- The proportion of a population that must be immune to stop sustained transmission, calculated as 1 minus 1 divided by the basic reproduction number.
- Rapid diagnostic test for malaria
- Immunochromatographic strip detecting parasite antigens such as HRP-2 or pLDH in a finger-prick blood sample; gives a result in about 15 minutes.
- National Air Quality Index
- Six-category index from Good to Severe covering pollutants such as PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2, CO, ozone, ammonia and lead, reported as the worst sub-index.
- Vitamin B1 deficiency
- Lack of thiamine causes beriberi, with peripheral neuropathy in the dry form and heart failure with oedema in the wet form.
- Adult CPR ratio
- For adults, deliver 30 chest compressions followed by 2 rescue breaths, compressing at 100 to 120 per minute to a depth of 5 to 6 centimetres.
- Rogi Kalyan Samiti
- Hospital-level patient welfare committee that manages user charges and local facility improvements to strengthen accountability and service quality.