Chapter 6 Practice Quiz

. What federal act first established the mandate to provinces/territories to design and manage the delivery of health care?

Hospital Insurance and Diagnostics Services Act

Constitution Act

Health Care Act

Medical Care Insurance Act

. What initially motivated some provincial governments to establish hospital insurance plans for residents?

Financial incentives

Federal mandates

Economic and climate conditions

Epidemics

. What was the main finding of the Hall Report?

Millions of Canadians did not have health-care coverage.

Some provinces had not established hospital insurance plans.

The federal government was not cost-sharing with territories.

Canadians were organizing private health insurance plans.

. What principle was NOT included in the Medical Care Insurance Act of 1966?

Comprehensiveness

Public administration

Portability

Accessibility

. What was a major barrier to the provincial/territorial implementation of universal health care in the late 1970s and early 1980s?

No federal financial support

Lack of legislation

Physicians were permitted to opt out

Only hospital coverage was offered

. How did the Canada Health Act differ from the preceding acts?

It allowed the federal government to impose financial penalties on non-complying provinces.

It covered more health-care services.

It introduced the principle of public administration.

It introduced one national health-insurance plan.

. Which report called for reform of the health system based on Canadian values?

Hall Report

Castonguay Report

Romanow Report

Peel Report

. When was the Canada Health Transfer introduced?

1996

2004

2012

1984

. Which term refers to federal funds used to help cover a portion of the costs of a provincial health-care program?

Primary payments

Transfer payments

Cost payments

Linking payments

. What is NOT an assumption of the social determinants of health perspective?

Social and economic conditions impact health.

Individuals are responsible for their own health.

Healthy communities are more likely to produce healthy individuals.

Income is the most comprehensive determinant of health.

. The Low Income Measure refers to ________.

a relative measure of poverty, calculated as half of the median adjusted household income

the cost of purchasing specific goods and services that represent a basic standard of living

income thresholds below which a family will likely devote a larger portion of its income to the necessities of food, shelter, and clothing than the average family

poverty caused by a sudden crisis or loss

. Which term refers to the lack of or denial of resources, rights, or goods and services to marginalized groups?

Less eligibility

Social exclusion

Social transfer

Income inequality

. Which term describes how early childhood experiences predispose children to either good or poor health regardless of later life circumstances?

Pathway effects

Cumulative effects

Latency effects

Predisposition effects

. The province or territory that has the most emergency shelters and beds is ________.

Ontario

Yukon

British Columbia

Quebec

. Which disparity has been found to explain the association between racial identity and health outcomes in Canada?

Income

Health service utilization

Educational attainment

All of the above

. In the early colonial era, health-care services were provided in local hospitals.

True

False

. Canada's health-care system is comprised of 13 interconnected provincial/territorial health plans.

True

False

. The federal government in Canada directly funds health services for First Nations and Inuit communities.

True

False

. The establishment of the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostics Services Act and the Medical Care Insurance Act put an end to pervasive extra billing by physicians in Canada.

True

False

. Approximately 31 per cent of total health-care costs in Canada are covered privately through out-of-pocket payments and private insurance plans.

True

False

. According to the Romanow Report, Canadians view Medicare as a business venture, not a moral enterprise.

True

False

. Employment conditions can have a direct impact on health.

True

False

. Social workers have been involved in the development of palliative care services in Canada since their inception.

True

False

. Social work in mental health deals only with treating individuals with mental illness.

True

False

. The social determinants of health model attributes health disparities to biological/genetic factors.

True

False

. For the total Canadian population, life expectancy for men is lower than for women.

True

False

. Racialized immigrant groups are more likely to have precarious employment.

True

False

. The primary social determinant of health for women is level of education.

True

False

. One in five Canadians aged 15+ have experienced an activity limitation due to a physical, mental, or other health-related condition.

True

False

. There is consensus on what the social determinants of health are and how they shape health.

True

False

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