HINF 265 Test #1 Study Guide Exam
with Actual Detailed Answers 2025-
2026 Updated.
What are some examples of supplemental costs? - Answer Prescription medications,
dentistry, home care, and long-term care
What are two big challenges with care transitions and integration? - Answer 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 - Answer False.
Healthcare spending rises but growth rate slows
Where does 70% of total health care spending go towards? - Answer Public Sector Funding
What are the three main sources of increased spending? - Answer 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? - Answer There are 5
health authorities:
- Fraser Health
- Interior Health
- Northern Health
- Vancouver Costal Health
- Vancouver Island Health
What do provincial health services authority oversee? - Answer 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 - Answer True
What are some reasons there is a rise in Canadian health care expenditures? - Answer -
Population growth
- Population aging
, - Income growth and inflation
When was the Canada Health Act adopted? - Answer 1984
What was the primary objective of the Canada Health Act? - Answer 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?
- Answer 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" - Answer Public Administration
What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must cover all residents" - Answer Universality
What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must insure all medically necessary services provided by:
hospitals, physicians, dentists" - Answer Comprehensiveness
What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must provide all residents reasonable access to medically
necessary services" - Answer Accessibility
What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must cover all residents when they travel within Canada" -
Answer Portability
What are the two health care accords? - Answer 1. First Ministers' Accord on Health Care
Renewal
2. 10-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care
with Actual Detailed Answers 2025-
2026 Updated.
What are some examples of supplemental costs? - Answer Prescription medications,
dentistry, home care, and long-term care
What are two big challenges with care transitions and integration? - Answer 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 - Answer False.
Healthcare spending rises but growth rate slows
Where does 70% of total health care spending go towards? - Answer Public Sector Funding
What are the three main sources of increased spending? - Answer 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? - Answer There are 5
health authorities:
- Fraser Health
- Interior Health
- Northern Health
- Vancouver Costal Health
- Vancouver Island Health
What do provincial health services authority oversee? - Answer 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 - Answer True
What are some reasons there is a rise in Canadian health care expenditures? - Answer -
Population growth
- Population aging
, - Income growth and inflation
When was the Canada Health Act adopted? - Answer 1984
What was the primary objective of the Canada Health Act? - Answer 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?
- Answer 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" - Answer Public Administration
What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must cover all residents" - Answer Universality
What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must insure all medically necessary services provided by:
hospitals, physicians, dentists" - Answer Comprehensiveness
What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must provide all residents reasonable access to medically
necessary services" - Answer Accessibility
What is the given principle?
"The provincial and territorial plans must cover all residents when they travel within Canada" -
Answer Portability
What are the two health care accords? - Answer 1. First Ministers' Accord on Health Care
Renewal
2. 10-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care
