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HS 3400 Midterm Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Why study health policy? - answer✔You realize something is wrong with the healthcare system
and want to change it
Health policy examples - answer✔Legalization of recreational cannabis, pharmacare,
mandatory vaccination, aboriginal health
Policy Processes and Policy-Making examples - answer✔How are laws introduced and passed?
How do policies change? How is health governed?
Policy - 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 - 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 - 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
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that have to do with health, created by health agencies organizations; can be both public and
private
Healthy Public Policy - 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 - answer✔Activity that organizes or delivers a service or goods to achieve a policy's
objectives
Politics - answer✔The art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy
Laws - answer✔Enact public policy
Constitutional Act, 1867 - 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 - answer✔Divides authority among levels of government, and intentionally restricts
the powers of the central government
Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) - answer✔Government-run health insurance plan for
Ontario
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Canada Health Act (1984) - 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 - answer✔Comprehensiveness
Universality
Accessibility
Portability
Public Administration
Comprehensiveness - answer✔Provincial insurance plans must insure (i.e., cover) all "insured
health services" provided by physicians or within hospitals
Universality - answer✔Provincial insurance plans must cover 100% of insured health services
for all insured persons under uniform terms and conditions
Portability - answer✔Requires certain coverage for insured residents when temporarily out of
province, and specifies the waiting period before a resident moving to a new province/territory
is eligible for insured health services (can't exceed 3 months)
Public Administration - answer✔Provincial insurance plans must be administered and operated
on a non-profit basis by a public authority (e.g., OHIP - Ontario Health Insurance Plan)
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HS 3400 Midterm Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Why study health policy? - answer✔You realize something is wrong with the healthcare system
and want to change it
Health policy examples - answer✔Legalization of recreational cannabis, pharmacare,
mandatory vaccination, aboriginal health
Policy Processes and Policy-Making examples - answer✔How are laws introduced and passed?
How do policies change? How is health governed?
Policy - 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 - 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 - 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
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that have to do with health, created by health agencies organizations; can be both public and
private
Healthy Public Policy - 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 - answer✔Activity that organizes or delivers a service or goods to achieve a policy's
objectives
Politics - answer✔The art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy
Laws - answer✔Enact public policy
Constitutional Act, 1867 - 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 - answer✔Divides authority among levels of government, and intentionally restricts
the powers of the central government
Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) - answer✔Government-run health insurance plan for
Ontario
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Canada Health Act (1984) - 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 - answer✔Comprehensiveness
Universality
Accessibility
Portability
Public Administration
Comprehensiveness - answer✔Provincial insurance plans must insure (i.e., cover) all "insured
health services" provided by physicians or within hospitals
Universality - answer✔Provincial insurance plans must cover 100% of insured health services
for all insured persons under uniform terms and conditions
Portability - answer✔Requires certain coverage for insured residents when temporarily out of
province, and specifies the waiting period before a resident moving to a new province/territory
is eligible for insured health services (can't exceed 3 months)
Public Administration - answer✔Provincial insurance plans must be administered and operated
on a non-profit basis by a public authority (e.g., OHIP - Ontario Health Insurance Plan)
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