Full Test Bank For Health and Health Care Delivery in Canada – 4th Edition by Valerie D. Thompson – (Chapters 1–10) Answers With Feedback

, 1: The History of Health Care in Canada
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1. When and where was Canada’s first medical school established?
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C The first medical
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D The first medical
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge
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2. In 1834, William Kelly deduced which public health principle?
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a. Vaccination can successfully eradicate smallpox.
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b. Education is directly related to health.
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c. Quarantine effectively contains infections.
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d. Sanitation and disease are related.
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A William Kelly did not deduce that smallpox could be eliminated with a
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vaccine.
B William Kelly did not deduce that education level was related to health.
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C William Kelly did not introduce quarantine to contain disease.
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D William Kelly suspected a relationship between sanitation and disease and
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@deduced that water might be a source of contamination.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge
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3. Which of the following volunteer organizations was involved in the evolution of heal
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th care
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ANS: % @ A

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, A The Order of St. John was introduced in Canada in 1883; the members
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had knowledge of first aid, disaster relief, and home nursing.
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B The Veterans’ Society did not play a part in the evolution of health car
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e in Canada.
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C The St. Andrew’s Society did not play a part in the evolution of health
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care in Canada.
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D The Canadian Nurses Association did not play a part in the early evoluti
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on of health care in Canada.
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4. What did the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act (1957) propose?
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a. Provinces without a health insurance plan must pay additional federal tax.
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b. Provinces and territories with a health insurance plan would receive su
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bstantial funding from the federal government.
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c. Certain services would no longer be funded by the federal government.
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d. Physicians would be allowed to charge a fee for service to the client.
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A The Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act did not propose an
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increase in tax for provinces without a plan.
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B Under the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act (1957), provin
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ces and territories with a health insurance plan would have funding mat
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ched by the federal government by 50 cents for every dollar.
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C The Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act did not propose the
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ans to charge a fee for service.
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5. What major change in political thinking occurred in post–
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World War II Canada in relation to health care?
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a. Universities should educate more nurses.
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b. The government should not be required to provide access to primary health care.
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c. Individual families should be responsible for absorbing the cost of health care.
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d. Governments should be responsible for providing basic services like health care.
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ANS: % @ D

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A The need to educate more nurses was not part of post–
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World War II thinking in Canada.
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C The belief that families should bear the cost of health care was not part
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of the political thinking in post–World War II Canada.
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World War II Canada, and in the aftermath of a depression, the thinki
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ng shifted to the idea that governments had an obligation to provide Ca
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nadians with a better standard of living, including access to quality hea
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lth care.
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