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Final Qualifying Examination Community Health Paper for the Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery

The community health paper of the final qualifying examination for the Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery, set as forty multiple choice items, eight short answers and one long answer. The questions take primary health care and the Alma-Ata element, the health promotion approaches, the determinants of health and the six levels of health service delivery, nutrition assessment with the mid-upper arm circumference, housing, sullage and waste-water treatment, the stages of disease and outbreak investigation, screening sensitivity, population pyramids and migration, study designs and research ethics, immunisation schedules, maternal and child health, mental health and substance use and the Kenya Health Policy. The long answer sets out the ways of controlling communicable diseases.

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