Canada health System

Question 1

What are provincial/territorial governments responsible for?

Answer 1

Managing and delivering healthcare services

Question 2

What therapy showed the largest increase in usage between 1997-2016?

Answer 2

Yoga increased from 10% to 27%

Question 3

What is integrative medicine?

Answer 3

The combination of conventional and alternative medicine practices

Question 4

What is CAM?

Answer 4

Healthcare approaches and practices not widely taught in medical schools or used in hospitals

Question 5

Name four allied health professionals in Canada

Answer 5

Audiologists, chiropractors, kinesiologists, massage therapists

Question 6

What are the three types of nurses in Canada?

Answer 6

Registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and nurse practitioners (NPs)

Question 7

Federal government responsibility

Answer 7

Setting national standards, financing provincial services, and delivering health services to specific groups

Question 8

What percentage of healthcare funding comes from public sectors?

Answer 8

70%

Question 9

What are the five key principles of Canadian health act

Answer 9

Public administration, comprehensiveness, universality, portability, and accessibility

Question 10

When was Medicare established in Canada?

Answer 10

It was established in the 1960s and 1970s

Question 11

Who was the person who established

Answer 11

Tommy Douglas

Question 12

Hospital insurance and diagnostic act

Answer 12

1964, 1972, standardized plan nation wide

Question 13

Canada Health Act

Answer 13

1985 new standard.