CNUR 400: Unit 2 Canadian Health Care
Practice Exam With Verified Solutions.
5 Principles of Canada Health Act - Answer 1. Comprehensiveness
2. Universality
3. Portability
4. Accessibility
5. Public Administration
1. Comprehensiveness - Answer -Medically necessary vs. medically unnecessary
Medically Necessary - Answer -unemployment insurance
-helath insurance
-prevention/diagnosis/treatment/care
Medically Unnecessary - Answer -PHC
-care of chronically ill
-pt safety
-communicable diseases
-inter-professional management of care
2/3 Universality and Portability - Answer -Universality: right to be insured by the province you reside in
-Portability:| right ot move your health care services to another province after 3 months of residency
Canadian constitution - Answer gives the responsibility for healthcare to the provincial governments
-as a result, each province has a choice about joining cost-shared programs or forfeiting penalties
4. Accesibility - Answer Every insured person shoul dhave hte same acces to healthcare services and
the provincial government shoul be able to sustian these services over time
, What does accessibiliyt include? - Answer -healthcare 24/7
-any diagnostic procedure and treatments needed
-reduction in duplication of health information
-quality home and community services
-quality care no matter where they live
-an efficient, responsive, and adaptive health care system
5. Public Administration - Answer The healthcare insured program must be 'not for profit' and
administered by the provincial governments
Medicare (Canada) - Answer unofficial name of Canada's publicly-funded health care system for all
residents of Canada
Medicare (US) - Answer Federally funded program of health care for those 65 year of age or older, or
disabled persons
Problems in Canadian healthcare - Answer -failure to change traditional practices and move to primary
healthcare
-utilization of all professionals
Future Considerations for Canadian healthcare - Answer -will business become more important than
public health?
-will American influences and global capitalism weaken our health care system?
What do nurses need to know in order to lead change? - Answer Understand...
-history and structures of the healthcare system
-the debates about medicare
-international pressures and globalization
-the needs of the Canadian population
Practice Exam With Verified Solutions.
5 Principles of Canada Health Act - Answer 1. Comprehensiveness
2. Universality
3. Portability
4. Accessibility
5. Public Administration
1. Comprehensiveness - Answer -Medically necessary vs. medically unnecessary
Medically Necessary - Answer -unemployment insurance
-helath insurance
-prevention/diagnosis/treatment/care
Medically Unnecessary - Answer -PHC
-care of chronically ill
-pt safety
-communicable diseases
-inter-professional management of care
2/3 Universality and Portability - Answer -Universality: right to be insured by the province you reside in
-Portability:| right ot move your health care services to another province after 3 months of residency
Canadian constitution - Answer gives the responsibility for healthcare to the provincial governments
-as a result, each province has a choice about joining cost-shared programs or forfeiting penalties
4. Accesibility - Answer Every insured person shoul dhave hte same acces to healthcare services and
the provincial government shoul be able to sustian these services over time
, What does accessibiliyt include? - Answer -healthcare 24/7
-any diagnostic procedure and treatments needed
-reduction in duplication of health information
-quality home and community services
-quality care no matter where they live
-an efficient, responsive, and adaptive health care system
5. Public Administration - Answer The healthcare insured program must be 'not for profit' and
administered by the provincial governments
Medicare (Canada) - Answer unofficial name of Canada's publicly-funded health care system for all
residents of Canada
Medicare (US) - Answer Federally funded program of health care for those 65 year of age or older, or
disabled persons
Problems in Canadian healthcare - Answer -failure to change traditional practices and move to primary
healthcare
-utilization of all professionals
Future Considerations for Canadian healthcare - Answer -will business become more important than
public health?
-will American influences and global capitalism weaken our health care system?
What do nurses need to know in order to lead change? - Answer Understand...
-history and structures of the healthcare system
-the debates about medicare
-international pressures and globalization
-the needs of the Canadian population
