Week Two

Question 0

Medicare

Answer 0

Key component of the Canadian social safety net

Provision of hospital and medical insurance funded by taxation

Question 1

Global Health

Answer 1

I encompasses prevention, treatment, and care while focusing on the improvement of health for all and health equity

The CNA defines global health as the optimal well-being of all humans from the individual and collective perspective

Question 2

Canada Health Act

Answer 2

1984

Principles of:
Public administration 
Comprehensiveness
Universality
Portability
Accessibility

(Recently added sustainability as a principle)

Question 3

Federal Government Role in Health Service

Answer 3

Sets and administers national principles

Assists in financing of health care services through transfer payments

Delivers health services for First Nations, Inuit people, veterans, federal inmates, and RCMP

Provides national policy and programming to promote health and prevent disease

Question 4

Provincial/Territorial role in health services

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; mix of providers; and amount of money dedicated to health care services

Reimburse physician and hospital costs; some rehabilitation and long-term care services (usually on basis of co-op payments with individual users)

Question 5

The Romanow Commission (2002)

Answer 5

Medicare is sustainable and must be preserved because it represents core values of Canadians

Creating a new diagnostic service fund

Building information technology infrastructure

Improving access

Ensuring and measuring quality

Improving and expanding primary health care

Strengthening and expanding home care

Offering catastrophic drug coverage

Creating a national health council responsible for indicators and performance measures

Question 6

Kirby Report (2002)

Answer 6

Medicare system is not sustainable

Need for stronger private sector involvement

Shifting funding for hospitals to service-based model

Granting more responsibility to regional health authorities

Reforming primary health care

Offering a health care guarantee to Canadians

Question 7

Mission of the ICN

Answer 7

To represent nursing worldwide, advancing the profession and influencing health policy