HS 3400 MIDTERM | COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
STUDY GUIDE 2026
Why study health policy? - correct answer ✔✔You realize something is wrong with the
healthcare system and want to change it
Health policy examples - correct answer ✔✔Legalization of recreational cannabis, pharmacare,
mandatory vaccination, aboriginal health
Policy Processes and Policy-Making examples - correct answer ✔✔How are laws introduced and
passed? How do policies change? How is health governed?
Policy - correct answer ✔✔Broad statement of goals, objectives and means that create the
framework for activity. Often takes the form of explicit written documents, but may also be
implicit or unwritten; decisions taken by those with responsibility for a given policy area
Public Policy - correct answer ✔✔Courses of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to
address a given problem; anything a government chooses to do or not to do
Health Policy - correct answer ✔✔Courses of action (and inaction) that affect the set of
institutions, organizations, services and funding arrangements of the health and health care
system; policies that have to do with health, created by health agencies organizations; can be
both public and private
Healthy Public Policy - correct answer ✔✔Public policies (i.e., policies outside of the health
sector) characterized by an explicit concern for health and equity in all areas of policy and by an
accountability for health impact
Program - correct answer ✔✔Activity that organizes or delivers a service or goods to achieve a
policy's objectives
, Politics - correct answer ✔✔The art or science concerned with guiding or influencing
governmental policy
Laws - correct answer ✔✔Enact public policy
Constitutional Act, 1867 - correct answer ✔✔- Law passed by the British parliament that
created Canada, founded on Indigenous lands
- Specifies the responsibilities of the national (federal) government and the provinces and
territories
Federalism - correct answer ✔✔Divides authority among levels of government, and
intentionally restricts the powers of the central government
Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) - correct answer ✔✔Government-run health insurance
plan for Ontario
Canada Health Act (1984) - correct answer ✔✔In order for provinces and territories to receive
full cash and tax transfers from the federal government to fund health care, they must comply
with the terms of the Canada Health Act
Five conditions of Canada Health Act - correct answer ✔✔Comprehensiveness
Universality
Accessibility
Portability
Public Administration
Comprehensiveness - correct answer ✔✔Provincial insurance plans must insure (i.e., cover) all
"insured health services" provided by physicians or within hospitals
STUDY GUIDE 2026
Why study health policy? - correct answer ✔✔You realize something is wrong with the
healthcare system and want to change it
Health policy examples - correct answer ✔✔Legalization of recreational cannabis, pharmacare,
mandatory vaccination, aboriginal health
Policy Processes and Policy-Making examples - correct answer ✔✔How are laws introduced and
passed? How do policies change? How is health governed?
Policy - correct answer ✔✔Broad statement of goals, objectives and means that create the
framework for activity. Often takes the form of explicit written documents, but may also be
implicit or unwritten; decisions taken by those with responsibility for a given policy area
Public Policy - correct answer ✔✔Courses of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to
address a given problem; anything a government chooses to do or not to do
Health Policy - correct answer ✔✔Courses of action (and inaction) that affect the set of
institutions, organizations, services and funding arrangements of the health and health care
system; policies that have to do with health, created by health agencies organizations; can be
both public and private
Healthy Public Policy - correct answer ✔✔Public policies (i.e., policies outside of the health
sector) characterized by an explicit concern for health and equity in all areas of policy and by an
accountability for health impact
Program - correct answer ✔✔Activity that organizes or delivers a service or goods to achieve a
policy's objectives
, Politics - correct answer ✔✔The art or science concerned with guiding or influencing
governmental policy
Laws - correct answer ✔✔Enact public policy
Constitutional Act, 1867 - correct answer ✔✔- Law passed by the British parliament that
created Canada, founded on Indigenous lands
- Specifies the responsibilities of the national (federal) government and the provinces and
territories
Federalism - correct answer ✔✔Divides authority among levels of government, and
intentionally restricts the powers of the central government
Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) - correct answer ✔✔Government-run health insurance
plan for Ontario
Canada Health Act (1984) - correct answer ✔✔In order for provinces and territories to receive
full cash and tax transfers from the federal government to fund health care, they must comply
with the terms of the Canada Health Act
Five conditions of Canada Health Act - correct answer ✔✔Comprehensiveness
Universality
Accessibility
Portability
Public Administration
Comprehensiveness - correct answer ✔✔Provincial insurance plans must insure (i.e., cover) all
"insured health services" provided by physicians or within hospitals
