HS 3400 Midterm Questions With Complete Solutions
"Focusing Events" correct answers Sudden, relatively
uncommon, can be reasonably defined as "harmful" or revealing
the possibility of potentially greater future harms
3 Key Health Policy Challenges for Canada's Health Care
System correct answers 1. Long wait times for some elective
health care services
2. Inequitable access to health care services outside that which is
publicly funded
3. Sustained poor health outcomes for Indigenous populations
Actors correct answers - Individuals
- Communities/populations
- Interest groups
- Organizations/corporations
- Government bodies
Agenda Setting correct answers Process by which certain issues
come onto the policy agenda from the much larger number of
issues potentially worthy of attention by policy makers
Alternative Funding/ Service Arrangements correct answers -
Pay-for-performance
- Activity-based funding
- Integrated funding models
- Establish centralized intake of patients
- Increase after-hours care
- Eliminate inappropriate tests and treatments
- Recruit/increase pay for key human resources
,Benchmarks correct answers Targets representing the maximum
amount of time a patient should wait, beyond which evidence
shows adverse health effects will likely occur
Branches of Canadian Government correct answers Legislative:
make laws
Judiciary: interprets laws
Executive: implements laws and programs
Canada Health Act (1984) correct answers 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
Cannabis Act correct answers Will allow adults, subject to
provincial or territorial restrictions, to:
- Purchase fresh cannabis, dried cannabis, cannabis oil, cannabis
seeds, or cannabis plants from authorized retailers
- Consume cannabis in authorized locations
- Possess up to 30 grams of dried legal cannabis or equivalent in
non-dried form in public;
- Share up to 30 grams of dried legal cannabis with other adults;
- Grow up to four cannabis plants per household for personal
use, from licensed seeds or seedlings from a licensed supplier;
- Make legal cannabis-containing products at home, such as food
and drinks
Cannabis Legal History in Canada correct answers Criminally
prohibited since 1923
Medical cannabis first legalized in 2001
, Failed decriminalization (2003,2004)
Anti-drug strategy (2007)
Attempts at mandatory minimums (2009)
Comprehensiveness correct answers Provincial insurance plans
must insure (i.e., cover) all "insured health services" provided by
physicians or within hospitals
Constitutional Act, 1867 correct answers - 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
Content correct answers - What is the policy statement?
- What is/are the policy objective(s)?
- What are the means through which policy objectives will be
pursued?
Context correct answers - Situational factors
- Structural factors
- Cultural factors
- Exogenous factors
Cost-Benefit analysis correct answers - Compares the monetary
value of resources used with monetary value of resources saved
or created
- Places monetary value on lives and quality of life
- Often done using 'willingness-to-pay' methodology
- Policy alternatives can be compared by the net monetary
benefit
"Focusing Events" correct answers Sudden, relatively
uncommon, can be reasonably defined as "harmful" or revealing
the possibility of potentially greater future harms
3 Key Health Policy Challenges for Canada's Health Care
System correct answers 1. Long wait times for some elective
health care services
2. Inequitable access to health care services outside that which is
publicly funded
3. Sustained poor health outcomes for Indigenous populations
Actors correct answers - Individuals
- Communities/populations
- Interest groups
- Organizations/corporations
- Government bodies
Agenda Setting correct answers Process by which certain issues
come onto the policy agenda from the much larger number of
issues potentially worthy of attention by policy makers
Alternative Funding/ Service Arrangements correct answers -
Pay-for-performance
- Activity-based funding
- Integrated funding models
- Establish centralized intake of patients
- Increase after-hours care
- Eliminate inappropriate tests and treatments
- Recruit/increase pay for key human resources
,Benchmarks correct answers Targets representing the maximum
amount of time a patient should wait, beyond which evidence
shows adverse health effects will likely occur
Branches of Canadian Government correct answers Legislative:
make laws
Judiciary: interprets laws
Executive: implements laws and programs
Canada Health Act (1984) correct answers 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
Cannabis Act correct answers Will allow adults, subject to
provincial or territorial restrictions, to:
- Purchase fresh cannabis, dried cannabis, cannabis oil, cannabis
seeds, or cannabis plants from authorized retailers
- Consume cannabis in authorized locations
- Possess up to 30 grams of dried legal cannabis or equivalent in
non-dried form in public;
- Share up to 30 grams of dried legal cannabis with other adults;
- Grow up to four cannabis plants per household for personal
use, from licensed seeds or seedlings from a licensed supplier;
- Make legal cannabis-containing products at home, such as food
and drinks
Cannabis Legal History in Canada correct answers Criminally
prohibited since 1923
Medical cannabis first legalized in 2001
, Failed decriminalization (2003,2004)
Anti-drug strategy (2007)
Attempts at mandatory minimums (2009)
Comprehensiveness correct answers Provincial insurance plans
must insure (i.e., cover) all "insured health services" provided by
physicians or within hospitals
Constitutional Act, 1867 correct answers - 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
Content correct answers - What is the policy statement?
- What is/are the policy objective(s)?
- What are the means through which policy objectives will be
pursued?
Context correct answers - Situational factors
- Structural factors
- Cultural factors
- Exogenous factors
Cost-Benefit analysis correct answers - Compares the monetary
value of resources used with monetary value of resources saved
or created
- Places monetary value on lives and quality of life
- Often done using 'willingness-to-pay' methodology
- Policy alternatives can be compared by the net monetary
benefit
