Week 3

Question 1

Income and Income Distribution

Answer 1

• Worldwide issue
• Lack of material resources to support health (example: cheaper foods are usually unhealthy)
• Children grow up in poverty and it can affect how they’re when they grow up

Question 2

Social Safety Network

Answer 2

• Having social support can affect your general health
• Not having support can affect you negatively
• If you’re social support doesn’t have the same values it may affects or influence your values (ex: vaccines)

Question 3

Education

Answer 3

• Need health literacy to understand the risks of actions and decisions and to understand consent forms in healthcare

Question 4

Employment and Job Security

Answer 4

• Paid work provides financial resources, sense of identity and personal growth
• Being unemployed can cause bad coping behaviours like stress

Question 5

Employment and Working Conditions

Answer 5

• Patients who are unemployed have additional stress
• Poor workplace environments may include unfair treatment, poor physical conditions

Question 6

Early Childhood Development

Answer 6

• Can influence health for their entire life (obesity)
• Need healthy childhoods that foster growth and development in order to be healthy as they grow up

Question 7

Food Insecurity

Answer 7

• Limited of uncertain availability of nutritious/healthy foods
• Isolated and low income families are more at risk
• Associated with poor heath, quality of life

Question 8

Housing

Answer 8

• Amount and Quality of Housing
• Safe

Question 9

Social Inclusion

Answer 9

Isolation of being cut off from others impacts on our needs for stable and strong relationships with others. Can cause stress and vulnerability to disease. Or indirectly such as substance abuse or overeating

Question 10

Health Services

Answer 10

Number of, quality, and ability to access is important. Should be universal and public

Question 11

Gender

Answer 11

• Income (Women get paid less than men while doing the same job)
• Men die due to heart diseases, suicide. While women are more prone to anxiety and depression

Question 12

Culture, Race and Racism

Answer 12

Immigrant status; illness and health may be difficult for them. They may refuse treatments or may not speak the same language

Question 13

Disability

Answer 13

• Acute or Chronic
• Experience social isolation which can affect their health

Question 14

Social Environments

Answer 14

• Array of values and norms of society that may influence people’s health and well being
  -Social exclusion limits excess to many things

Question 15

Indigenous Status

Answer 15

More likely to experience health inequalities and burden disease

Colonization and discrimination cause poor health

Question 16

Medicare

Answer 16

Provision of hospital and medical insurance funded by all of our taxes

Question 17

Canada Health Act (1984)

Answer 17

A law that facilitates reasonable access to healthcare services without financial or other barriers

Question 18

Canada Health Act- 5 Principles

Answer 18

1. Public Administration (non-profit)
2. Comprehensiveness (covers all hospital needs)
3. Universality (for Canadian citizens entitled to portability)
4. Portability (maintained province to province, no cost/penalty)
5. Accessibility (reasonable access)

Question 19

Treaty 6 (Indigenous Healthcare)

Answer 19

Enables direct delivery of services to indigenous peoples regardless of where they live

Question 20

Indian Act (1985)

Answer 20

Law that identifies federal governments role in providing healthcare services to indigenous and inuit

Question 21

Federal Jurisdiction

Answer 21

Sets and administers the Canadian Health Act principles. They transfer the taxes to provinces and territories

Question 22

Provincial and Territorial Jurisdiction

Answer 22

Develop and administer their own healthcare insurance plans complying with Canadian Health Act principles. They determine the organizations and locations of healthcare facilities

Question 23

Regulated Health Professions Act

Answer 23

Law that establishes regulatory colleges that also regulate health professions in the public interest

Question 24

Long Term Care Homes Act

Answer 24

Outlines the running, structure and responsibilities of long term care settings

Question 25

Mental Health Act

Answer 25

Determines whether people’s rights are when they’re suffering from mental illnesses

Question 26

Cannabis Act

Answer 26

Makes cannabis more regulated while at the same time protecting younger people form access and creating public awareness of risks

Question 27

Public Hospital Act

Answer 27

Regulations that hospitals have to operate by

Question 28

Personal Information Protection Act

Answer 28

Who we agree that our information can be released to and now, when and why

Question 29

Health Promotion (5 levels of care)

Answer 29

Enables people to increase control over and improve their own health

Question 30

Prevent Disease and Injury (5 levels of care)

Answer 30

Looking at early detection and reduction of risks (immunizations)

Question 31

Diagnosis and Treatment (5 levels of care)

Answer 31

Focuses on recognizing and treating existing health problems in the population

Primary- Visiting family doctor
Secondary- Seeing specialist
Tertiary- Highly specialized and technical care complicated to unusual health problems (sick kids)

Question 32

Rehabilitation (5 levels of care)

Answer 32

Restoring an individual to the highest level of function

Question 33

Supportive Care

Answer 33

Supporting individuals of all ages who have chronic or progressive conditions

Question 34

Primary Healthcare

Answer 34

Entry Point Contact:
- Place you go when you know you have a health problem
- most effective bc it prevent people from getting ill
- Optimizes health care

Question 35

Primary Healthcare Reform

Answer 35

Goal is to make it easier for patients to find primary care when they need one

4 ways:
1. Family healthcare teams
2. Community Healthcare centres
3. Nurse practitioners- led clinics
4. Home and Community care support services