Lecture 1

Question 1

How did the 1854 Cholera Outbreak impact Canada?

Answer 1

• Spread In Canada, came from the Uk
• Led to the first health board system, to ensure where virus is spreading
• as infection spread quarantine was required
• Led to to the first two laws which were the quarantine act an sick mariners act

Question 2

When were the first health department legislations established?

Answer 2

-1919
-Responsibilities included all matters pertaining to public health.

Question 3

When did the health department expanded

Answer 3

• In 1928, triggered by returning war veterans and it was renamed to Pensions and national health

Question 4

When was the department of national health and welfare established and why

Answer 4

1944-1993
- was then named department of health

Question 5

health Canada

Answer 5

• modern name for the Department of health in Canada, renamed in 2002

Question 6

What is the difference between Act and Regulation

Answer 6

Act is legislation. A bill requires Royal Assent to become Law
Regulation: Subordinate legislation. Defines the application and enforcement of an act

Question 7

When was the inland revenue act established and why

Answer 7

• 1875
  -To protect consumers by preventing adulteration of food, drink and drugs
• Adulteration: To make something using inferior materials

Question 8

What is the adulteration act

Answer 8

• established in 1884
• “An Act to Amend and to Consolidate as Amended the Several Acts Respecting the Adulteration of Food and Drugs”
• Was then renamed in 1920 as food and drugs act

Question 9

What is Thalidomide

Answer 9

-a sedative drug approved for sale in Canada in the 1961
- The drug was prescribed for pregnant women
- The drug was found to damage the fetus
- 100 deformed babies were born, resulting in the drug to be pulled from hospitals across Canada

Question 10

1990’s new drug licensing framework

Answer 10

Every brand name of a drug receives a unique Drug Identification Number (DIN) (1992)
Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting (post-market surveillence) added into the FDR (1995)
Changes increasingly conforming to international regulations (international harmonization)
Risk/Benefit ratio

Question 11

vanessa’s law

Answer 11

-occurred in 2014
- was established as a response of the death of a 15 year old girl (Vanessa Young) who happen to be a parliament member’s daughter
- It enhanced post-market drug surveillance through mandatory adverse drug reaction reporting by healthcare institutions
- It allowed authorities to recall unsafe therapeutic products
- new penalties and fines were to be received
-caused drug companies to revise labels to clearly reflect health risk information, including potential updates for health warnings for children
- extra testing must be performed when the issues involve children
- the act is 50 pages while regulation is above a thousand

Question 12

Therapeutic product

Answer 12

means a drug or device or any combination of drugs and devices, but does not include a natural health product within the meaning of the Natural Health Products Regulations;

Question 13

Drug

Answer 13

includes any substance or mixture of substances manufactured, sold or represented for use in
(a) the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of a disease, disorder or abnormal physical state, or its symptoms, in human beings or animals,
(b) restoring, correcting or modifying organic functions in human beings or animals, or
(c) disinfection in premises in which food is manufactured, prepared or kept; 

Question 14

device

Answer 14

Health or medical instrument used in the treatment, mitigation, diagnosis or prevention of a disease or abnormal physical condition.

Question 15

biologic

Answer 15

: A drug product derived from a living organism (animal, plant or microbe)