GLPH 171 EVALUATION TEST ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔injury can be considered an outcome of social and physical determinants of health.
upstream and downstream components - ✔✔Injuries? exposure or outcome?
✔✔an alteration of gene activity without changing DNA sequence. Social and physical
exposures have an epigenetic effect. They alter health by changing how an individual's
genes function - ✔✔epigenetics
✔✔The lack of exposure to infections, allergens, and "dirt" in childhood decreases the
development of the immune system and increases the risk of allergies. - ✔✔hygiene
hypothesis
✔✔If everyone always has a cough then coughing is normal, like blinking, and no one
will think to ask why everyone coughs. - ✔✔ubiquitous exposure
✔✔Determining Exposure; Long latency; Rare outcomes; Ethics of experimental
designs; developmental stages - ✔✔challenges to environmental research
✔✔"a wide range of federal, provincial and joint federal-provincial programs: Old Age
Security, Guaranteed Income Supplement, the Canada Pension Plan, Employment
Insurance, the Canada Child Tax Benefit, and the National Child Benefit." - ✔✔Social
safety net
✔✔Income per capita is higher in the USA than in Canada. - ✔✔General trend of US-
Canada INCOME
✔✔The U S spending on health is proportionally greater than all other Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries - ✔✔General trend of US-
Canada HEALTH SPENDING
✔✔the number of doctors per 1000 people. - ✔✔Doctor density
, ✔✔Canada has a lower doctor density than the US, and a lot of the developed world -
✔✔General trend of US-Canada DOCTOR DENSITY
✔✔ - ✔✔General trend of US-Canada PHYSICIAN PRODUCTIVITY
✔✔ - ✔✔Canadian doctors are more productive
✔✔more general practitioners in CA - ✔✔General trend of US-Canada GENERAL
PRACTITIONER-SPECIALIST RATIO
✔✔More specialists: associated with worse health outcomes; Fewer family physicians:
associated with worse health outcomes - ✔✔stats with GENERAL PRACTITIONER-
SPECIALIST RATIOS
✔✔mammograms :( - ✔✔lesson of too much care
✔✔father of medicare - ✔✔who is tommy douglas
✔✔Universality: everybody is insured; Accessibility: no direct cost to the user;
Comprehensiveness: medically necessary hospital & doctors' services; Public
Administration: of the non-for-profit insurance plan (KEY PRINCIPAL); Portability: The
Canada Health Act guarantees health care throughout Canada, (i.e a resident of
Ontario can receive care while in Alberta) - ✔✔Canada Health act principles
✔✔What doctors do; How doctors treat particular illnesses; Where doctors practice; -
✔✔Canada Health care act does not dictate
✔✔ - ✔✔Quality of care
✔✔provincial and federal taxes - ✔✔Medicare is funded by
✔✔administration? - ✔✔Medicare is governed by
✔✔Physician care; Hospital care; (ward room); Midwifery care; Some chronic care;
Some home care - ✔✔whats covered by medicare?
✔✔Medications (except immunizations); Dental care (out of hospital); Ambulance
transfers; Physiotherapy (out of hospital); Chiropractic; Optometry; Psychology -
✔✔whats not covered by medicare?
✔✔roster of patients - ✔✔how are family physicians paid?
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔injury can be considered an outcome of social and physical determinants of health.
upstream and downstream components - ✔✔Injuries? exposure or outcome?
✔✔an alteration of gene activity without changing DNA sequence. Social and physical
exposures have an epigenetic effect. They alter health by changing how an individual's
genes function - ✔✔epigenetics
✔✔The lack of exposure to infections, allergens, and "dirt" in childhood decreases the
development of the immune system and increases the risk of allergies. - ✔✔hygiene
hypothesis
✔✔If everyone always has a cough then coughing is normal, like blinking, and no one
will think to ask why everyone coughs. - ✔✔ubiquitous exposure
✔✔Determining Exposure; Long latency; Rare outcomes; Ethics of experimental
designs; developmental stages - ✔✔challenges to environmental research
✔✔"a wide range of federal, provincial and joint federal-provincial programs: Old Age
Security, Guaranteed Income Supplement, the Canada Pension Plan, Employment
Insurance, the Canada Child Tax Benefit, and the National Child Benefit." - ✔✔Social
safety net
✔✔Income per capita is higher in the USA than in Canada. - ✔✔General trend of US-
Canada INCOME
✔✔The U S spending on health is proportionally greater than all other Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries - ✔✔General trend of US-
Canada HEALTH SPENDING
✔✔the number of doctors per 1000 people. - ✔✔Doctor density
, ✔✔Canada has a lower doctor density than the US, and a lot of the developed world -
✔✔General trend of US-Canada DOCTOR DENSITY
✔✔ - ✔✔General trend of US-Canada PHYSICIAN PRODUCTIVITY
✔✔ - ✔✔Canadian doctors are more productive
✔✔more general practitioners in CA - ✔✔General trend of US-Canada GENERAL
PRACTITIONER-SPECIALIST RATIO
✔✔More specialists: associated with worse health outcomes; Fewer family physicians:
associated with worse health outcomes - ✔✔stats with GENERAL PRACTITIONER-
SPECIALIST RATIOS
✔✔mammograms :( - ✔✔lesson of too much care
✔✔father of medicare - ✔✔who is tommy douglas
✔✔Universality: everybody is insured; Accessibility: no direct cost to the user;
Comprehensiveness: medically necessary hospital & doctors' services; Public
Administration: of the non-for-profit insurance plan (KEY PRINCIPAL); Portability: The
Canada Health Act guarantees health care throughout Canada, (i.e a resident of
Ontario can receive care while in Alberta) - ✔✔Canada Health act principles
✔✔What doctors do; How doctors treat particular illnesses; Where doctors practice; -
✔✔Canada Health care act does not dictate
✔✔ - ✔✔Quality of care
✔✔provincial and federal taxes - ✔✔Medicare is funded by
✔✔administration? - ✔✔Medicare is governed by
✔✔Physician care; Hospital care; (ward room); Midwifery care; Some chronic care;
Some home care - ✔✔whats covered by medicare?
✔✔Medications (except immunizations); Dental care (out of hospital); Ambulance
transfers; Physiotherapy (out of hospital); Chiropractic; Optometry; Psychology -
✔✔whats not covered by medicare?
✔✔roster of patients - ✔✔how are family physicians paid?
