2a Key System Players Flashcards
What are two major levels of authorities?
Federal
Provincial
What is the Federal level of health authority in Canada called?
Health Canada
What are the levels of authority on the Provincial level? (Names)
Ministry of Health
Health Authorities
Individual agencies
What are the three branches of Canada’s Parliamentary System?
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
Judicial Branch
What makes up the executive branch of Canada’s parliamentary system?
Prime Minister and Cabinet
What makes up the legislative branch of Canada’s parliamentary system?
Queen (represented by the Governor General)
Senate
House of Commons
Who decides on who is in the Senate?
Appointed on the Prime Minister’s recommendation
Who decides on who is in the House of Commons?
Elected by voters
What makes up the judicial branch of Canada’s parliamentary system?
Supreme Court of Canada
Federal Court of Canada
Provincial Courts
What are four instruments of policy?
Treasure
Nodality/information
Authority
Organization
What things are exclusively provincial jurisdiction?
Anything local or private in nature Direct taxation Crown lands and natural resources Hospitals (health sector) Education Welfare Municipalities Local works Intra-provincial transportation and business Administration of justice Property and civil rights Cooperative and savings banks
What things are exclusively federal jurisdiction?
Peace, order and good government Any form of taxation International/interprovincial trade and commerce, communications and transportation Banking and currency Foreign affairs (treaties) Militia and defense Criminal law and penitentiaries Naturalization Weights, measures, copyrights, patents First Nations Residual powers Declaratory power Disallowance and reservation Unemployment insurance and old age pensions
What are joint federal and provincial powers? (specific things)
Immigration
Agriculture
Pensions
Which activities does Health Canada support that help Canadians maintain and improve their health?
Preserve and modernize Canada’s health care system
Enhance and protect the health of Canadians
Work in partnership with others
Communicate health promotion and disease prevention
Which department was responsible for Canada’s health care policies in 1872?
Department of Agriculture
Which department was created to be responsible for Canada’s health care policies in 1919?
Department of Health
Which department was created in 1929 that was the first shared cost federal and provincial program.
Department of Pensions and National Health
What split in departments occurred in 1945?
Health and Welfare Canada
Department of Veteran’s Affairs
What occurred in 1993 regarding Welfare?
Welfare moved to Human Resources Development
What is the role of Health Products and Food Branch (HPFB)?
HPFB’s mandate is to take an integrated approach to the management of the risks and benefits to health to health related products and food.
How does the Health Products and Food Branch manage the risks and benefits to health related to health products and food?
Minimizing health risk factors to Canadians while maximizing the safety provided by the regulatory system for health products and food.
Promoting conditions that enable Canadians to make healthy choices.
Providing information so that they can make informed decisions about their health.
What are the major programs of the Health Products and Food Branch (HPFB)?
Therapeutic products (medical devices and drugs).
Food, including all Health Canada nutrition activities.
Natural health products.
Biologics and genetics.
Office of Consumer and Public Involvement (OCAPI).
Office of Biotechnology and Science
Health Products and Food Litigation Secretariat
What materials are included under “biologics and genetics” program (by the Health Products and Food Branch)
Blood and blood products, viral and bacterial.
Vaccines, genetic therapies and diagnostics, tissues, organs.
Xenotransplants, radiopharmaceuticals, and reproductive technologies
What is the role of the Health Policy Branch? (HPB)
This branch plays a lead role in health policy and consultations.
What are the major responsibilities of the Health Policy Branch (HPB)?
Policy, planning and priorities
Administration of the Canada Health Act
Intergovernmental and international affairs.
Women’s health.
Nursing policy.
Assessments of the impact of Health Canada policies, programs, and legislation on provinces and territories.
Analysis of provincial and territorial developments and trends, and their impact on Health Canada.
What are some agencies of the Federal Government regarding health?
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission
Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
Public Health Agency of Canada
What is the Canadian Institutes of Health Resources?
Canada’s premier federal agency for health research
What is the Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission?
Trade secret protection/balance the right of industry to protect trade secrets and the need of workers to have accurate health and safety information about hazardous chemicals used in the workplace.
What is the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board?
A quasi-judicial body, protects consumers and contributes to health care by ensuring that the manufacturers’ prices of patented medicines are not excessive.
What is the Public Health Agency of Canada?
Preventing chronic diseases, like cancer and heart disease, preventing injuries and responding to public health emergencies and infectious disease outbreaks.
What are the acts administered by Health Canada?
Canada Health Act Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse Act Canadian Environmental Protection Act Canadian Institutes of Health Research Act Controlled Drugs and Substances Act Department of Health Act Financial Administration Act Fitness and Amateur Sport Act
What is the Canada Health Act?
This Act establishes the criteria and conditions which provincial health insurance plans or for extended health care services must meet to receive the full cash contributions under the Canada Health and Social Transfer.
What is the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse Act?
This Act created an independent centre under the auspices of the Minister of Health to promote increased awareness of drug and alcohol abuse through a variety of information and educational programs.
What is the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (1999)?
The potential risks of environmental pollutants and toxic substances are evaluated under this Act that addresses pollution prevention and the protection of the environment and human health in order to contribute to sustainable development.
What is the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Act?
This Act establishes the Canadian Institutes of Health Research responsible for the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health for Canadians.
What is the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act?
This Act, passed on May 19, 1997, controls the import, production, export, distribution and possession of substances classified as narcotic and controlled substances.
What is the Department of Health Act?
This Act sets out the powers, duties and functions of the Minister which extend to all matters covering the promotion or preservation of the health of Canadians over which Parliament has jurisdiction.
What is the Financial Administration Act?
An Order adopted under this Act authorizes the Minister of Health to charge fees for processing drug submissions and establishes fees for providing dosimetry services.
What is the Fitness and Amateur Sport Act?
This Act provides for the authority of the Minister to enter into agreements with any province in respect of costs incurred by the province in undertaking programs designed to encourage, promote or develop fitness in Canada.
What is the primary objective of Canadian health care policy, as laid out by the Canada Health Act?
To protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers.
What is Intergovernmental Connection I?
As of 2004, the following four advisory committees report to the Conference of F/P/T Deputy Ministers of Health
Which committees are included in Intergovernmental connection I?
Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources
Advisory Committee on Population Health and Health Security
Advisory Committee on Information and Emerging Technologies
Advisory Committee on Governance and Accountability
What is Intergovernmental Connection II?
The Conference of F/P.T Deputy Ministers of Health appoints one of their members to act as liason with some intergovernmental agencies.
Which intergovernmental agencies are involved in Intergovernmental Connection II?
Canada Health Infoway Inc.
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Canadian Patient Safety Institute
Health Council of Canada