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55 Cards in this Set
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When was a national unemployment insurance program first amended to the BNAA |
1940 |
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When were family allowances for children aged 16 and |
1944 |
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social movements for security and equity of a publicly funded health care system began after what? |
World war II |
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When did the federal government set up grants to fund development of health services in partnership with the provinces? When did national old age security program begin supplementing these grants? |
1948, 1952 |
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When did the federal government begin providing support for adults who were disabled and unable to work |
1954 |
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Hospital insurance and diagnostic services act When ? What? |
1957 provided federal dollars to provinces and territories willing to implement a comprehensive hospital insurance plan. |
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The Hospital insurance and Diagnostic Services Act stipulated that the federal government would cover what % of cost for insured services |
50% |
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Prepaid health care |
Access to medically necessary hospital and physician services on a prepaid basis, and on uniform terms and conditions |
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medicare |
informal name for Canadas national health insurance plan |
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Who is the father of medicare |
Tommy douglas |
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The Saskatchewan Medical Care insurance Act was passed in |
1961 |
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What are the significant acts leading up to the Canada health act |
The hall report,The medical Care act, The established programs and financing act |
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When was the hall report |
1960 |
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When was the medical care act was developed and implemented? |
1966, 1968 |
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When was the EPF act |
1977 |
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What are the main points of the hall report |
supported a national medicare program Recommended that private health companies in the country be replaced by ten provincial public health insurance plans Recommended that the number of physician be doubled by 1990 |
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Criteria of the medical care act |
Universality Portability Comprehensive coverage public Administration |
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When was the medical care act accepted by all provinces and territories |
1972 |
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The EPF act replaced what? |
50/50 cost-sharing formula with a block transfer of cash and tax points |
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Block Transfer |
One payment from the federal to the provincial and territorial governments to cover all services |
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Main points of EPF act |
New funding formula to allocate money to health and postsecondary reduced restriction on how jurisdictions could spend money provided more transfer money for an extended health care services program |
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Delisted |
The removal of an item from a list or registry |
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Extrabilling |
An additional fee, charged to the user by a health care provider for a service covered under the terms of a provincial or territorial health insurance plan |
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Canadas Provincial health program for the 1980s stated what |
extra billing violated principles of medical care act |
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Canada health act became law in ? |
1984 |
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The Canada health act's primary goal is to |
Provide equal prepaid and accessible health care to eligible Canadians |
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The primary objective of the CHA is? |
To protect, promote, and restore, the physical and mental well-being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to heath services without financial or other barriers. |
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what are the criteria of the CHA |
1. public administration 2. Comprehensive coverage 3. Universality 4. Portability 5. Accessibility |
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The conditions of the CHA are? |
1. information 2. Recognition |
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Public administration |
health insurance plans are to be administered on a non-profit basis by a public authority. |
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under the CHA health plans must be overseen by |
the ministry of health and department of health |
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comprehensive Coverage |
Insurance plans allow eligible person with a medical need to access prepaid, medically necessary services provided by physicians and hospitals with no barriers to access |
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Universality |
All eligible residents of a province or territory must be entitled to the insured health services provided by the plans on uniform terms and conditions |
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Which provinces currently charge health insurance premiums |
BC and Ontario |
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Portability |
Residents moving from one province or territory to another must continue to be covered for insured health care services by the home province during any minimum waiting period, not to exceed three months, imposed by the now province of residence. |
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When was accessibility added to the CHA |
1984 |
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Accessibility |
Health insurance plans of the provinces and territories must provide: reasonable access to insured health care services on uniform terms and conditions. |
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Information? |
The provincial and territorial governments are to provide information to the minister of health, in relation to insured health care services and extended health care services, for the purposes identified in the Canda health act . |
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Recognition |
The provincial and territorial governments are to publicly recognize the federal contributions toward both insured and extended health care services. |
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Medically necessary |
A clinical judgement made by a physician regarding the necessity of a service provided under a provincial or territorial health to maintain, restore or palliate. |
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does the CHA allow for extra-billing? |
NO |
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user charges |
a fee imposed for an insured health service that the provincial or territorial health insurance plan does not cover |
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extended health care services considered medically necessary |
intermediate nursing home care adult residential care services home care services services provided in ambulatory care centres |
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in 1986 what occurred |
Ontario physicians held a strike |
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medical model of health care? (6) |
physician-based care illness focused hospital-based care curative problems are isolated health care provider dominated |
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goals of primary health care reform |
team oriented care emphasis on health Community-based care focus on health promotion and disease prevention care is comprehensive and integrated care is comprehensive and integrated collaborative care involving patient family and loved ones |
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When was the social union formed |
1997 |
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The social union agreed to |
maintain the five criteria of the Canada Health Act |
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Mazankowski report was released in |
2000 |
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key points of the mazenkowski report |
supported some aspects of private health care recommended delisting selected services recommended implemented electronic health records Suggested that Albertans pay higher premiums |
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what province was the first to implement electronic health records ( when) |
Alberta (2003) |
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Kirby Report (When) |
2002 |
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key points of the kirby report |
health care system was unsustainable implement new taxes and premiums that were geared to income setting limits to wait times set-up government funded assistance plan for medications under certain circumstances. Invest 2 billion for info tech invest 2.5 billi for advanced equipment incentives for health professionals to return to Canada provide funds to recruit |
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Romanow report when |
2002 |
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Key points of Romanow |
immediate action by government necessary for funding and revision opposed privatization of health care recommend creation of health council to oversee improvements recommended that reform initiative be paid for by the federal goverment surplus or by rasing taxes adding accountability to CHA exteding covg for home care, diagnosistic testing palliative care and mental care catastropic drug cost be covered national boyd contorl drug prices establishment of agency to review and approve prescription drugs adcocated the organization of a central body to moitor and streamline wait list but no limit on wait times |
