Ch 2. Health Care Delivery System

Question 1

Medicare

Answer 1

A key component of Canadian social safety net
Provides hospital and medical insurance
Funded by general taxation

Covers Permanent residents, new immigrants, and citizens of the country

Question 2

Canada Health Act (1984

Answer 2

Public administration
Comprehensiveness
Universality
Portability
Accessibility

Question 3

The Federal Government

Answer 3

• Sets and administers national principles
• Assists in financing of health care services through transfer payments
• Delivers health services for Indigenous people, veterans, federal inmates, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Question 4

Provincial and Territorial Governments

Answer 4

• Develop and administer their own health care insurance plans
• Manage, finance, and plan insurable health care services and delivery, in alignment with CHA principles
• Determine organization and location of hospitals or long-term care facilities

Question 5

Primary care

Answer 5

Focus is on personal health services

Question 6

Primary health care

Answer 6

Includes primary care and health education, nutrition, maternal and child health care, family planning, immunizations, and control of locally endemic disease

Question 7

Barriers to Primary Health Care

Answer 7

Individual-level barriers – ex lack of trust
Practice-level barriers -
System-level barriers - funding

Question 8

Four Pillars of Primary Health Care

Answer 8

Teams
Access
Information
Healthy living

Question 9

Levels of Health Care

Answer 9

Level 1: Health promotion
Level 2: Disease and injury prevention
Level 3: Diagnosis and treatment
Level 4: Rehabilitation
Level 5: Supportive care

Question 10

Disease and Injury Prevention

Answer 10

Reduce risk factors for disease and injury

Prevention strategies
Clinical actions 
--Immunizing
Behavioural aspects 
--Support groups
Environmental actions 
--Climate control activism

Question 11

Diagnosis and treatment

Answer 11

• Recognizing and managing the existing health problems of individuals
• Primary care (first point of contact with health care system)
• Secondary care (provision of specialized medical service)
• Tertiary care (specialized technical care for complicated health problems)

Question 12

Rehabilitation

Answer 12

• Improving the health and quality of life of those facing life-altering conditions
• Required after physical/mental illness, injury, or addiction

Services include

• Physiotherapy
• Occupational therapy
• Respiratory therapy
• Social services

Question 13

Supportive Care

Answer 13

• For patients with chronic illness, progressive illness, or disability
• Long-term care and assisted-living facilities, adult day care centres, home care
• Also includes respite care and palliative care