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Public administration - Answers -✔✔ all administration of provincial health insurance
must be carried out by a public authority on a non-profit basis
Comprehensiveness - Answers -✔✔ All necessary health services must be insured
Universality - Answers -✔✔ all insured residents are entitled to the same level of health
care
Portability - Answers -✔✔ a resident that moves to a different province/country is still
entitled to coverage from home province during a minimum waiting period
Accessibility - Answers -✔✔ all insured persons must have reasonable access to
health care facilities. All physicians, hospitals, etc. must provide reasonable
compensation for the services they provide
Umbrella of care: Health Canada - Answers -✔✔ Provides a safeguard of care through
surveillance, prevention, legislation and research
PHAC - Answers -✔✔ Public Health Agency of Canada
CIHR - Answers -✔✔ Canadian Institutes of Health Research
HPFB - Answers -✔✔ Health Products and Food Branch
HECSB - Answers -✔✔ Healthy Environments & Consumer Safety Branch
FNIHB - Answers -✔✔ First Nations & Inuit Health Branch
Reasons to transform the health care system - Answers -✔✔ Fragmented care
delivery, Changing workforce, Increasing volume and complexity of patients
Primary care - Answers -✔✔ first point of contact with the health care system, Ex:
physicians, NP, community nurse, school nurse
Primary Health Care - Answers -✔✔ Foundation of Canada's health system, Entry into
the system and your continuity of care, Meant to achieve better health for all, Strong
emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention, Integrated approach that hits on
the ideology of "health for all", Intersectoral approach
, WHO: Health for all by 2000 - Answers -✔✔ Essential health care based on practical,
scientifically sound and acceptable methods, Universally accessible to individuals and
families in the community
how to achieve better health for all - Answers -✔✔ Addressing equity issues, Patient
and community relevant health services and programs, Situating health intersectorally,
Collaborative models and policies, Patient, partner participation
Intersectional Sector - Answers -✔✔ (inpatients and outpatients), Hospitals, long term
care facilities, rehab, psychiatric facilities
Community sector - Answers -✔✔ Public health, physician offices, home care, assisted
living, community health centers
Level 1 of care - Answers -✔✔ health promotion
Level 2 of care - Answers -✔✔ Disease and injury prevention
Level 3 of care - Answers -✔✔ diagnosis and treatment
level 4 of care - Answers -✔✔ rehab
level 5 of care - Answers -✔✔ supportive care
cost accelerators - Answers -✔✔ Digital Health technology, Demographics, Consumer
involvement
equity and quality challenges - Answers -✔✔ Cultural Competence, Evidence Informed
practice, Quality and patient safety, Privatization, Health care human resources,
Improved outpatient metrics
· Community Health Nursing (CHN) - Answers -✔✔ Growing need to deliver care in the
community, Hostilic, First established as Grey Nuns (Canada's 1st community nursing
order), Victoria Order of Nursing (VON)
Kate Brighty Colley - Answers -✔✔ Alberta, influenced rural nursing and PHN
Edith Kathleen Russell - Answers -✔✔ nursing education, specifically PHN ed
Goals of Community Health Nursing (CHN) - Answers -✔✔ Keep individuals healthy,
Encourage client participation and choices in care, Promote health enhancing social
and physical environments, Provide in home (at place) care