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Preventive & Social Medicine (Community Medicine) is a difficult branch to understand ... leave alone the aspect of liking it. Nonetheless, it is an important overarching medical subject encompassing clinical medicine, human behaviour, environment and many more.
Many students keep asking me a lot of exam questions again and again. The aim of this blog is to answer various queries and difficult concepts pertaining to this subject.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

A screening test is used in the same way in two similar populations but the proportions of false positive results of population A is lower than that in population B. What is the likely explanation ?

a) specificity of the test is lowr in population A
b
) the prevalence of the disease is lower in population A
c) the prevalence of the disease is higher in population A
d) the specificity of the test is higher in population A










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Ans: c
Sensitivity and Specificity are intrinsic properties of a test and do not change with change in prevalence. Similarly “FALSE POSITIVE RATE = 1 – Specificity” also does not change with prevalence.

However, when the prevalence is low the NUMBER OF FALSE POSITIVES will increase.  Thus the answer here is c – prevalence of disease is higher in population A



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