What is the date that the Canada Health act received Royal assent?
April 1984
100
What is the purpose of the Canada Health Act?
To establish criteria and conditions for health insurance plans in the provinces/territories.
100
What is the greatest challenge facing healthcare today?
Funding
100
What are the 3 methods the federal government uses to financially support the provinces?
1. Taxes
2. Cash
3. Equalization payments
100
What is framework for identifying social issues that affect health called?
The social determinants of health.
200
What is the date that the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic act took affect?
1957
200
What are the five principles of the Canada Health Act?
Public Administration, Comprehensiveness, universality, accessibility, portability.
200
What percentage of the Gross Domestic Product is spent on Canadian Healthcare today?
10.9%
200
E-health, a service provided by the federal government, includes what resources?
Electronic health technologies including electronic health records and telehealth.
200
Name two nursing organizations that are working to reduce poverty?
RNAO
CNA
ONA
300
What is the date of the Medical Care Act?
1966
300
What does the condition of "portability", in the CHA, mean?
An individual will be covered by their home province when travelling within Canada or when moving to a new province (for the first 3 months) until their new province takes over.
300
What is the percentage of the total budget that provinces and territories spent on healthcare in 2010?71%
71%
300
In 2004 the first ministers conference produced what report?
The "10-year plan to strengthen health care"
300
What are the characteristics of the most vulnerable in society that are affected by poverty?
Single mothers, recent immigrants, those with a disability, aboriginal people, high school dropouts, or racially discriminated individuals.
400
The Canada Health and Social transfer came into effect in which year
1996
400
What does the condition of "accessibility", in the CHA, stipulate?
Financial or other barriers to the provision of publicly funded health services are discouraged, so that health services are available to all Canadians when they need them
400
The biggest challenge, in regards to healthcare, that people living in rural areas face is?
Access to care, especially to specialists.
400
What are the 3 main purposes of the Federal government in healthcare?
1. Setting and administering national principles
2. Financial support
3. Providing healthcare to 7 specific groups of people
400
Describe one program started by Jeffrey Turnbull that he discussed at the 2015 quality symposium.
Shelters for the poor, diversion program used by EMT's, treatment facilities for people with addictions.
500
The "Ten Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care" end in what year?
2014
500
What does the condition of "public administration" stipulate?
That provincial and territorial health care insurance plans to be managed by a public agency on a not-for-profit basis. (This principle says nothing about the ownership structure of a health service delivery institution.)
500
Which professional group, who make up the largest portion of Canada's health care workforce, has still not recovered in numbers since the drastic cutbacks during the 90's?
Nurses
500
What are the 7 groups of people that the Federal Government is responsible for?
Inuits, Natives, military, RCMP, veterans, inmates and refugees
500
What is the name of the act that ensures that workers are protected?