HS 3400 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Why study health policy? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅You realize something is wrong with the healthcare
system and want to change it
Health policy examples - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Legalization of recreational cannabis, pharmacare,
mandatory vaccination, aboriginal health
Policy Processes and Policy-Making examples - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅How are laws introduced and
passed? How do policies change? How is health governed?
Policy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Activity that organizes or delivers a service or goods to achieve a
policy's objectives
Politics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental
policy
Laws - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Enact public policy
, Constitutional Act, 1867 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Divides authority among levels of government, and intentionally
restricts the powers of the central government
Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Government-run health insurance plan
for Ontario
Canada Health Act (1984) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Comprehensiveness
Universality
Accessibility
Portability
Public Administration
Comprehensiveness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Provincial insurance plans must insure (i.e., cover) all
"insured health services" provided by physicians or within hospitals
Universality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Provincial insurance plans must cover 100% of insured health
services for all insured persons under uniform terms and conditions
Portability - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Requires certain coverage for insured residents when temporarily
out of province, and specifies the waiting period before a resident moving to a new province/territory is
eligible for insured health services (can't exceed 3 months)
Why study health policy? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅You realize something is wrong with the healthcare
system and want to change it
Health policy examples - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Legalization of recreational cannabis, pharmacare,
mandatory vaccination, aboriginal health
Policy Processes and Policy-Making examples - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅How are laws introduced and
passed? How do policies change? How is health governed?
Policy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Activity that organizes or delivers a service or goods to achieve a
policy's objectives
Politics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental
policy
Laws - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Enact public policy
, Constitutional Act, 1867 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Divides authority among levels of government, and intentionally
restricts the powers of the central government
Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Government-run health insurance plan
for Ontario
Canada Health Act (1984) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Comprehensiveness
Universality
Accessibility
Portability
Public Administration
Comprehensiveness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Provincial insurance plans must insure (i.e., cover) all
"insured health services" provided by physicians or within hospitals
Universality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Provincial insurance plans must cover 100% of insured health
services for all insured persons under uniform terms and conditions
Portability - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Requires certain coverage for insured residents when temporarily
out of province, and specifies the waiting period before a resident moving to a new province/territory is
eligible for insured health services (can't exceed 3 months)
