HS 3400 Midterm Exam Questions with Answers (100%
Correct Answers)
Why study health policy?
Ans✅ ✅: You realize something is wrong with the healthcare system and want to change it
Health policy examples
Ans✅ ✅: Legalization of recreational cannabis, pharmacare, mandatory vaccination,
aboriginal health
Policy Processes and Policy-Making examples
Ans✅ ✅: How are laws introduced and passed? How do policies change? How is health
governed?
Policy
Ans✅ ✅: 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
Ans✅ ✅: 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
Ans✅ ✅: 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
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,Healthy Public Policy
Ans✅ ✅: 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
Ans✅ ✅: Activity that organizes or delivers a service or goods to achieve a policy's
objectives
Politics
Ans✅ ✅: The art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy
Laws
Ans✅ ✅: Enact public policy
Constitutional Act, 1867
Ans✅ ✅: - 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
Ans✅ ✅: Divides authority among levels of government, and intentionally restricts the
powers of the central government
Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
Ans✅ ✅: Government-run health insurance plan for Ontario
Canada Health Act (1984)
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, Ans✅ ✅: 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
Ans✅ ✅: Comprehensiveness
Universality
Accessibility
Portability
Public Administration
Comprehensiveness
Ans✅ ✅: Provincial insurance plans must insure (i.e., cover) all "insured health services"
provided by physicians or within hospitals
Universality
Ans✅ ✅: Provincial insurance plans must cover 100% of insured health services for all
insured persons under uniform terms and conditions
Portability
Ans✅ ✅: 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)
Public Administration
Ans✅ ✅: Provincial insurance plans must be administered and operated on a non-profit
basis by a public authority (e.g., OHIP - Ontario Health Insurance Plan)
Medicare
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Correct Answers)
Why study health policy?
Ans✅ ✅: You realize something is wrong with the healthcare system and want to change it
Health policy examples
Ans✅ ✅: Legalization of recreational cannabis, pharmacare, mandatory vaccination,
aboriginal health
Policy Processes and Policy-Making examples
Ans✅ ✅: How are laws introduced and passed? How do policies change? How is health
governed?
Policy
Ans✅ ✅: 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
Ans✅ ✅: 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
Ans✅ ✅: 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
© 2025 All rights reserved
,Healthy Public Policy
Ans✅ ✅: 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
Ans✅ ✅: Activity that organizes or delivers a service or goods to achieve a policy's
objectives
Politics
Ans✅ ✅: The art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy
Laws
Ans✅ ✅: Enact public policy
Constitutional Act, 1867
Ans✅ ✅: - 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
Ans✅ ✅: Divides authority among levels of government, and intentionally restricts the
powers of the central government
Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
Ans✅ ✅: Government-run health insurance plan for Ontario
Canada Health Act (1984)
© 2025 All rights reserved
, Ans✅ ✅: 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
Ans✅ ✅: Comprehensiveness
Universality
Accessibility
Portability
Public Administration
Comprehensiveness
Ans✅ ✅: Provincial insurance plans must insure (i.e., cover) all "insured health services"
provided by physicians or within hospitals
Universality
Ans✅ ✅: Provincial insurance plans must cover 100% of insured health services for all
insured persons under uniform terms and conditions
Portability
Ans✅ ✅: 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)
Public Administration
Ans✅ ✅: Provincial insurance plans must be administered and operated on a non-profit
basis by a public authority (e.g., OHIP - Ontario Health Insurance Plan)
Medicare
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