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HS 3400 MIDTERM EXAM GUIDE/COMPREHENSIVE
GUIDE | 100 QUESTIONS | WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS!!/NEWEST UPDATE Questions and
Correct Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded
Why study health policy?
Ans: You realize something is wrong with the healthcare system and want to
change it
Health policy examples
Ans: Legalization of recreational cannabis, pharmacare, mandatory vaccination,
aboriginal health
Policy Processes and Policy-Making examples
Ans: How are laws introduced and passed? How do policies change? How is
health governed?
Policy
Ans: 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
Ans: 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
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Ans: 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
Ans: 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
Ans: Activity that organizes or delivers a service or goods to achieve a policy's
objectives
Politics
Ans: The art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental
policy
Laws
Ans: Enact public policy
Constitutional Act, 1867
Ans: - 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
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Ans: Divides authority among levels of government, and intentionally restricts
the powers of the central government
Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
Ans: Government-run health insurance plan for Ontario
Canada Health Act (1984)
Ans: 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
Ans: Comprehensiveness
Universality
Accessibility
Portability
Public Administration
Comprehensiveness
Ans: Provincial insurance plans must insure (i.e., cover) all "insured health
services" provided by physicians or within hospitals
Universality
Ans: Provincial insurance plans must cover 100% of insured health services for
all insured persons under uniform terms and conditions
Portability
© 2025/ 2026 | ® All rights reserved
HS 3400 MIDTERM EXAM GUIDE/COMPREHENSIVE
GUIDE | 100 QUESTIONS | WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS!!/NEWEST UPDATE Questions and
Correct Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded
Why study health policy?
Ans: You realize something is wrong with the healthcare system and want to
change it
Health policy examples
Ans: Legalization of recreational cannabis, pharmacare, mandatory vaccination,
aboriginal health
Policy Processes and Policy-Making examples
Ans: How are laws introduced and passed? How do policies change? How is
health governed?
Policy
Ans: 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
Ans: 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
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Ans: 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
Ans: 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
Ans: Activity that organizes or delivers a service or goods to achieve a policy's
objectives
Politics
Ans: The art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental
policy
Laws
Ans: Enact public policy
Constitutional Act, 1867
Ans: - 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
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Ans: Divides authority among levels of government, and intentionally restricts
the powers of the central government
Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
Ans: Government-run health insurance plan for Ontario
Canada Health Act (1984)
Ans: 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
Ans: Comprehensiveness
Universality
Accessibility
Portability
Public Administration
Comprehensiveness
Ans: Provincial insurance plans must insure (i.e., cover) all "insured health
services" provided by physicians or within hospitals
Universality
Ans: Provincial insurance plans must cover 100% of insured health services for
all insured persons under uniform terms and conditions
Portability
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