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NURS 3001 MIDTERM Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
Question: What are the important dates in the evolution of healthcare in
Canada
Answer: 1. 1867 BNA - each province formed their own government, showed a
large enough population to warrant attention to health services
2. 1919 Department of health was created to assume healthcare related
responsibilities (STIs, health of children)
3. 1928 Department of Pensions and National Health
4. 1948 Department of National Health and Welfare (food, drug control, public
health control)
5. 1993 Health Canada (food, consumer products, pharmaceuticals...)
Question:What was the division of federal and provincial healthcare
responsibilities following the BNA
Answer: Federal government was responsible for marine hospitals,
indigenous people and quarantines
Provincial government was responsible for hospitals, asylums and charitable
institutions
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Question:What are some of the responsibilities of Health Canada today
Answer: 1. Indigenous people on reserves
2. Some RCMP
3. Serving members of the Canadian forces
4. Eligible veterans
5. Inmates in federal penitentiaries
6. Refugee claimants
Question:What was the effect of colonization on Indigenous health practices
Answer: - Most indigenous healers (medicine man, shamans) are rooted in
holistic and spiritual beliefs
- Practices included: sweat lodges, healing circles and smudging ceremonies
- Prior to contact with Europeans, Indigenous people were very healthy
- Europeans discredited traditional healing ceremonies
Question:Describe early medical care in Canada
Answer: - In the 1700-1800s only the wealthy got care from doctors
- The poor got care from charitable institutions such as churches
- The first med school was established in 1825
- The first nursing school was established in 1873
- It wasn't until the 1880s that hospitals were deemed a pace to get well
Question:Describe how the concept of public health was established
Answer: - In 1834, Dr. Kelly found link between sanitation and disease
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- In 1830s a board of health was established in upper and lower Canada to look
after quarantine, sanitation, restricting immigration, stop the sale of spoiled
food)
- In the 1900s formal organizations were established to manage public health
matters (TB, pasteurizing milk, STIs, maternal/child matters)
Question:When was the first hospital established
Answer: In 1639 Hotel Dieu in QC
-Early 1800s the weathy avoided hospitals as they were mainly paces for the
poor
-1880s due to introduction of aseptic technique and improved surgical
procedures they were now seen as places to get well
Question:How was hospital insurance establieshed
Answer: 1914 - Rural Municipality Act in Sask
1930s Great Depression, increased pressure for a national program
1945 Post WW2 - expanded middle class required appropriate care
1957 - Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act (provinces received
funding to develop insurance plan)
NURS 3001 MIDTERM Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
Question: What are the important dates in the evolution of healthcare in
Canada
Answer: 1. 1867 BNA - each province formed their own government, showed a
large enough population to warrant attention to health services
2. 1919 Department of health was created to assume healthcare related
responsibilities (STIs, health of children)
3. 1928 Department of Pensions and National Health
4. 1948 Department of National Health and Welfare (food, drug control, public
health control)
5. 1993 Health Canada (food, consumer products, pharmaceuticals...)
Question:What was the division of federal and provincial healthcare
responsibilities following the BNA
Answer: Federal government was responsible for marine hospitals,
indigenous people and quarantines
Provincial government was responsible for hospitals, asylums and charitable
institutions
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Question:What are some of the responsibilities of Health Canada today
Answer: 1. Indigenous people on reserves
2. Some RCMP
3. Serving members of the Canadian forces
4. Eligible veterans
5. Inmates in federal penitentiaries
6. Refugee claimants
Question:What was the effect of colonization on Indigenous health practices
Answer: - Most indigenous healers (medicine man, shamans) are rooted in
holistic and spiritual beliefs
- Practices included: sweat lodges, healing circles and smudging ceremonies
- Prior to contact with Europeans, Indigenous people were very healthy
- Europeans discredited traditional healing ceremonies
Question:Describe early medical care in Canada
Answer: - In the 1700-1800s only the wealthy got care from doctors
- The poor got care from charitable institutions such as churches
- The first med school was established in 1825
- The first nursing school was established in 1873
- It wasn't until the 1880s that hospitals were deemed a pace to get well
Question:Describe how the concept of public health was established
Answer: - In 1834, Dr. Kelly found link between sanitation and disease
, Page | 3
- In 1830s a board of health was established in upper and lower Canada to look
after quarantine, sanitation, restricting immigration, stop the sale of spoiled
food)
- In the 1900s formal organizations were established to manage public health
matters (TB, pasteurizing milk, STIs, maternal/child matters)
Question:When was the first hospital established
Answer: In 1639 Hotel Dieu in QC
-Early 1800s the weathy avoided hospitals as they were mainly paces for the
poor
-1880s due to introduction of aseptic technique and improved surgical
procedures they were now seen as places to get well
Question:How was hospital insurance establieshed
Answer: 1914 - Rural Municipality Act in Sask
1930s Great Depression, increased pressure for a national program
1945 Post WW2 - expanded middle class required appropriate care
1957 - Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act (provinces received
funding to develop insurance plan)
