HINF 265 TEST #1 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
\.What are some examples of supplemental costs? - ANSWERS✔-Prescription
medications, dentistry, home care, and long term care
\.What are two big challenges with care transitions and integration? - ANSWERS✔-
ALC beds (hospital beds for non-acute patients) and people using the ED who
should be using home or community care
\.True or False? Healthcare spending lowers but growth rate increases -
ANSWERS✔-False. Healthcare spending rises but growth rate slows
\.Where does 70% of total health care spending go towards? - ANSWERS✔-Public
Sector Funding
\.What are the three main sources of increased spending? - ANSWERS✔-1.
Provider compensation
2. Increased use of services
3. Evolution of services available and used
,\.How many health authorities does BC have and what are they called? -
ANSWERS✔-There are 5 health authorities:
- Fraser Health
- Interior Health
- Northern Health
- Vancouver Costal Health
- Vancouver Island Health
\.What do provincial health services authority oversee? - ANSWERS✔-The co-
ordination and delivery of provincial programs and highly specialized health-care
services
\.True or False? The CHA allows private health care only for limited services at
mutually agreed upon rates - ANSWERS✔-True
\.What are some reasons there is a rise in Canadian health care expenditures? -
ANSWERS✔-- Population growth
- Population aging
- Income growth and inflation
\.When was the Canada Health Act adopted? - ANSWERS✔-1984
\.What was the primary objective of the Canada Health Act? - ANSWERS✔-To
protect, promote, and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of
, Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or
other barriers
\.What are the 5 principles that provinces and territories have to meet the
standards of the CHA? - ANSWERS✔-1. Public Administration
2. Comprehensiveness
3. Universality
4. Portability
5. Accessibility
\.What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must be administered and operated on a non
profit basis by a public authority" - ANSWERS✔-Public Administration
\.What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must cover all residents" - ANSWERS✔-
Universality
\.What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must insure all medically necessary services
provided by: hospitals, physicians, dentists" - ANSWERS✔-Comprehensiveness
\.What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must provide all residents reasonable access
to medically necessary services" - ANSWERS✔-Accessibility
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
\.What are some examples of supplemental costs? - ANSWERS✔-Prescription
medications, dentistry, home care, and long term care
\.What are two big challenges with care transitions and integration? - ANSWERS✔-
ALC beds (hospital beds for non-acute patients) and people using the ED who
should be using home or community care
\.True or False? Healthcare spending lowers but growth rate increases -
ANSWERS✔-False. Healthcare spending rises but growth rate slows
\.Where does 70% of total health care spending go towards? - ANSWERS✔-Public
Sector Funding
\.What are the three main sources of increased spending? - ANSWERS✔-1.
Provider compensation
2. Increased use of services
3. Evolution of services available and used
,\.How many health authorities does BC have and what are they called? -
ANSWERS✔-There are 5 health authorities:
- Fraser Health
- Interior Health
- Northern Health
- Vancouver Costal Health
- Vancouver Island Health
\.What do provincial health services authority oversee? - ANSWERS✔-The co-
ordination and delivery of provincial programs and highly specialized health-care
services
\.True or False? The CHA allows private health care only for limited services at
mutually agreed upon rates - ANSWERS✔-True
\.What are some reasons there is a rise in Canadian health care expenditures? -
ANSWERS✔-- Population growth
- Population aging
- Income growth and inflation
\.When was the Canada Health Act adopted? - ANSWERS✔-1984
\.What was the primary objective of the Canada Health Act? - ANSWERS✔-To
protect, promote, and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of
, Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or
other barriers
\.What are the 5 principles that provinces and territories have to meet the
standards of the CHA? - ANSWERS✔-1. Public Administration
2. Comprehensiveness
3. Universality
4. Portability
5. Accessibility
\.What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must be administered and operated on a non
profit basis by a public authority" - ANSWERS✔-Public Administration
\.What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must cover all residents" - ANSWERS✔-
Universality
\.What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must insure all medically necessary services
provided by: hospitals, physicians, dentists" - ANSWERS✔-Comprehensiveness
\.What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must provide all residents reasonable access
to medically necessary services" - ANSWERS✔-Accessibility
