Question 1

Which of the following additions to a community best demonstrates the principles outlined in the Canada Health Act?

Accepted Answer

The Canada Health Act promotes health care, not illness care. A children's hospital, ICU, and rehabilitation centre are all intended to provide episodic care after an illness. A primary health care centre best demonstrates a focus on health promotion.

Question 2

Which of the following best describes health inequities?

Accepted Answer

Despite the vast economic resources devoted to financing the health care system, unequal access to care exists, especially among vulnerable populations. Although the availability and provision of publicly funded health insurance is an important factor in health equity, vulnerable populations face additional obstacles, leading to health inequalities across the nation. Health inequities are a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, or environmental disadvantage, and they adversely affect groups of individuals, especially vulnerable populations.

Question 3

In order to comply with the Canada Health Act, health insurance coverage offered by provincial and territorial governments must include which of the following features?

Accepted Answer

The provincial and territorial governments offer health services, but every Canadian citizen has the same basic primary health insurance coverage that is provided by the national health care plan or other federal funding. Each Canadian citizen or permanent resident applies for a provincial health card. The Canadian publicly funded health care program, called medicare, is a group of 13 provincial or territorial health insurance plans that provide coverage to all Canadian citizens, regardless of medical history, personal income, or job status. Essential health benefits that are covered include ambulatory patient services; emergency services; hospitalization and associated care; maternity, newborn, well-child care; mental health and substance abuse services; prescription medications for those with low incomes (pharmacare); laboratory services; preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management; and preventive care.

Question 4

The Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada (VON Canada) was started by:

Accepted Answer

The Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) was started in 1897 by Lady Aberdeen, wife of the Governor General of Canada, to provide home and maternity care. It was created as a gift for Queen Victoria. The Augustine nuns arrived in Quebec in 1639 to provide holistic care for a medical mission. They are credited with introducing the nursing apprenticeship model to North America. Lillian Wald was an American nurse and social worker who founded The Henry Street Settlement in New York City in 1893 and is considered to be the founder of the community nursing movement in the United States.

Question 5

Which of the following factors result in hospitals having less time to offer health promotion education to individuals? (Select all that apply.)

Accepted Answer

A combination of the following factors results in hospitals having less time to offer prevention or health promotion education to individuals: changes in hospital care and use of hospitalists; increased use of outpatient services; shorter inpatient stays; and increased time caring for chronic illness as opposed to acute illness. Workforce shortages, especially in nursing, increase the use of nonprofessional caregivers, and inadequate resources, reimbursement, and numbers of nurses may also prevent health care providers from offering a range of health promotion educational efforts.

Quiz 3: Health Policy and the Delivery System

Which of the following additions to a community best demonstrates the principles outlined in the Canada Health Act?

Which of the following best describes health inequities?

In order to comply with the Canada Health Act, health insurance coverage offered by provincial and territorial governments must include which of the following features?

The Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada (VON Canada) was started by:

Which of the following factors result in hospitals having less time to offer health promotion education to individuals? (Select all that apply.)